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D’ATH, GeorgeAge Description Attacks on the Kasana home On at least three occasions in 1985, the A-Team attacked the home of Ms Nomosonto Kasana, assaulting members of the family. On one occasion the Kasana sons, Mbuselo, Mafuza and Peter, attacked the gang with pangas, hitting Phakathi in the face. Phakathi then opened fire ... 179 One strategy used by the SAP to protect their members from prosecution relating to illegal killings was that of changing their names. When Transkei’s Attorney-General tried to charge the police in connection with the Ndondo killing of September 1987, he was told by the SAP that SAP member ... 170 There were various incidents of guerrillas dying in clashes during 1985-86; it is not clear how many of these were deliberately orchestrated by the security forces and how many were isolated incidents. They include: six PAC members killed in a clash with Lesotho security forces at Qacha’s ... 225 On 6 July 1979, six ANC members in exile in Lesotho were injured in a parcel bomb attack in Maseru. One of them, Father John Osmers, had his hand and part of his groin blown away by the bomb which was concealed in a package containing copies of the ANC journal, Sechaba. The other victims were ... 245 On 17 August 1982, Ms Ruth First, then Director of the Centre for African Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, was killed in her office by a parcel bomb. On 28 June 1984, ANC official Ms Jeanette Curtis Schoon and her eightyear-old daughter, Katryn, were killed by a similar device ... Border/entrapment killings 370 Included here are two cases where the actual killings happened either on the border but not actually in South African territory or where individuals were lured out of South Africa into foreign territory to be killed by South African security forces. 371 According ... ■ SABOTAGE AND ARSON 464 While many of the actions described in this section were not in and of themselves gross human rights violations, they were state-directed acts of extra-territorial aggression and a component of the South African government’s counter-revolutionary warfare strategy. ... 442 In an amnesty application, a member of the Soweto Security Branch, Colonel Lodewyk de Jager, said that his unit was invited to an information-sharing and planning meeting for the raid at Special Forces headquarters. He stated that his unit had in the past attended similar sessions on ... Sources for the design 8 The Commission drew on a variety of prior human rights data projects in order to design its database. These included the experience of the Haitian National Commission for Truth and Justice and the United Nations Commission for Truth in El Salvador - at the time, the only ... Links with international right-wing groups 13. Amnesty applications also confirm that right-wing groups had links with other i n t e rnational right-wing groups. However, deeply held suspicions regarding an i n t e rnational right-wing conspiracy in respect of the murder of Mr Chris Hani were ... Volume ONE Chapter EIGHT The Destruction of Records ■ INTRODUCTION1 The story of apartheid is, amongst other things, the story of the systematic elimination of thousands of voices that should have been part of the nation’s memory. The elimination of memory took place through censorship, ... Banning 13 Banning of persons took place between 1951 and 1990. Its purpose was similar to that of ‘preventive’ detention – to ensure withdrawal from the political arena. The duration of banning orders ranged from one to five years, but an order could be successively applied. The longest ... ■ JUDICIAL EXECUTIONS21 The former state was reputed to have one of the highest rates of judicial execution in the world. In the period covered by the Commission’s mandate, over 2 500 people were hanged, 1 154 between 1976 and 1985. Some 95 per cent of all people executed were African. ... ■ APPENDIX 2 HRV HEARINGS DATE OF HEARING 1996 VENUE April 15 - 18 East London April 22 -25 Cape Town April 29 - 30 Johannesburg May 02 -03 Johannesburg May 07 - 10 Durban May 21 - 23 Port Elizabeth June 10 - 11 Kimberley (Northern Cape) June ... 174 Mr Kenneth Mncedisi Sigam [CT00323/OUT] was “forced to leave the MK camp” in Angola after “he opposed a decision of the leadership” and opposed the use of corporal punishment on comrades. A tribunal was held after which he was taken to Camp 32 on 18 May 1984. Here he said he was ... Killing of individual ‘enemies’ and ‘defectors’ 46 In the late 1970s, the ANC began to target specific police officers and perceived ‘collaborators’. Initially those killed were former ANC members who had turned state witness in political trials. The ANC justified these killings in ... 133 In its second submission, the ANC said that it conducted “exhaustive investigations” and tried the accused by military tribunal. The tribunal reported its findings to HQ, “where a final decision would be made”. 134 At the ‘recall hearing’ of political parties, ANC leaders were ... Andrew Zondo 28 From 1976 onwards, a number of MK members were sentenced to death and executed. One of these was Mr Sibusiso Andrew Zondo [KZN/NG/010/DN]. Andrew Zondo (19), from KwaMashu, north of Durban, went into exile in Mozambique at the age of sixteen after a brief period of detention. He ... Deaths of detainees held in terms of security legislation 166 The Commission was told of a number of cases where the victim died while detained under security legislation. ‘Suicides’ 167 In the following cases the police said the death was the result of suicide: a Mr Looksmart Ngudle ... 181 The Commission received statements about the following deaths in police custody. Although the Commission made a positive victim finding in these cases, it was not able to establish the exact legislation under which they were held at the time of their deaths. a Political activist Colenso ... |
