FOUR YOUTHS

... Marais claimed that he and the other two accused had been motivated by an unprovoked knife attack on several white pedestrians by a group of black youths in Durban earlier the same day. The judge said that court could not… // The ‘Orde Boerevolk’ and the AWB have been found guilty on seven ...

... of Oudtshoorn, in the Klein Karoo. // In the same month and year that the first state of emergency gripped the nation, June 1985, three Bongulethu youths were shot dead by police. They were shot at without warning after one of the youngsters went to a local security policeman’s house believing ...

... Soweto in 1985 it was as a heroine. Sir Kennedy said she was a source of inspiration. She built the Mandela United Football Club. With thousands of youths fleeing the security police there was no shortage of recruits. Winnie’s commander and chief of the football club was Jerry Richardson. He ...

... dead here in NY1 Gugulethu. The police say they received information of a planned attack and laid a counter ambush. According to the police, seven youths in a white minibus opened fire with small handguns and an AK47. They also threw a hand grenade. The police retaliated by killing all seven. At ...

... commuters in Durban in 1990 killing seven passengers. The applicants said this was a revenge attack for an earlier attack on white pedestrians by youths wearing APLA T-shirts. They chose the bus as a target because it was transporting black people. The Committee granted amnesty to the two ...

... one Mazibuko, are both dead. Segal died in a car accident recently and Mazibuko was shot and killed a few days after the tavern attack by township youths. But the most dramatic moment of the day came when lawyer Arendse asked Sibaya to walk around the room to see if he could recognize the driver ...

Today she is sad rather than bitter that her sister and mother died at the hands of her comrades. She believes the perpetrators were ill-disciplined youths who regarded anyone who did not toe the line as the enemy. // That time there was a misunderstanding between the youth in Duncan Village. So ...

Asvat told Winnie there was nothing he could do. Stompie and the other youths must be taken to hospital immediately. Winnie refused and the next day she summoned Asvat to her house.

... scene the commander and another man shot and killed Julia Buthelezi. The aftermath of the massacre left a tally of ten butchered bodies. One of the youths, Vuyani Tshabalala, survived the bullets and the hacking. He is yet to tell his story to the Committee. Ntjebo Ndondolo is said to have fled ...

Next was Methodist Bishop Peter Storey who had been involved in trying to secure the release of the four kidnapped youths. Bishop Storey provided the Commission with details and diary entries, which gave a blow by blow account of events around the whole kidnapping drama.

... Together, they killed at least 65 people in the name of the apartheid state. We’ll tell you about 21 of these murders tonight. In July 1986 nine youths, the youngest 15 years old, were gunned down in KwaNdebele. They wanted to go into exile and become trained guerrillas Jacques Hechter told ...

Bishop Verryn told the Truth Commission that the youths had been abducted from his mission house while he’d been on holiday. For the first time in the eight years since Stompie’s death Bishop Verryn apologised to the boy’s mother for not having done enough to keep him safe.

Back at Winnie’s, Stompie and the other terrified youths were under guard. The effects of the previous night’s beatings were seen by Katiza.

... parents who continued to ask questions about where their children were. Perhaps the most sickening case to my memory involved the abduction of two youths by members of the club who were then brought to the Mandela home, where they were accused of being informers. On one of them the letter M was ...