FOUR YOUTHS

... with poet / journalist Sandile Dikeni who provides some background on this practice. The programme also profiles the killing of three Bongulethu youths by police and evidence on the brutality of Bongulethu kitskonstabels. The episode ends with Gen Leon Mellet, former spokesperson of the ...

... April 1990 murder of Sam Chan and his family in Botswana; and a 1991 joint Vlakplaas operation that employed ex-Koevoet soldiers to attack and kill four alleged gun smugglers. The episode concludes with a segment on the former security policemen?s psychological ...

The Bongulethu three: three youths shot dead by police

On the 27th of April 1993, exactly one year before our first national democratic elections Nohombile Mphambani was killed by these seven youths. They said she was a member of the ADM, supported the tribal system and she was part of a plan to assassinate ANC leaders. // We went to her house. They ...

... and the father of one of the youths, Alfred Buthelezi. Buthelezi, the SDU allege, had given the order to kill Blanco and was an IFP sympathizer. Four youths were set free and Thusanang Rikabe managed to escape. The other seven were taken from this shack in which they were held captive and ...

Can you give us a reason why your policemen did not act regarding the abduction of either the four youths from the manse or of the two youths Lolo Sono and Sibuniso Tshabalala timeously? Can you give us a reason? // In that case it is negligence on the side of the public who knew but wouldn’t ...

Winnie’s sting was now in full flow. Football club members were sent to abduct the youths from Verryn’s church on the 29th of December 1988. With the others, he was hustled through the house to rooms here in Winnie’s back courtyard. Among the youths was the 14 year old activist Stompie ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Eugene Marais had executed the attack. They wanted to kill black people in revenge for an attack on white pedestrians on the Durban beach front by youths wearing APLA t-shirts earlier that ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

was Paul Verryn. He was compassionate and widely loved. Verryn’s church, also in Soweto, provided a similar refuge to Winnie’s football club for youths fleeing the security police. // ‘… God bless Africa, guard her children, guide her leaders and give her ...

... Is it possible that Walus might get amnesty but Derby-Lewis not? Another question is whether the racial motive for the killing of Amy Biehl by PAC youths may now be accepted as a political motive by the Amnesty Committee? It will be fascinating to see how the Amnesty Committee handles cases like ...

One of the youths, Nicholas Dlamini has just issued a statement from prison confirming that Katiza Cebekhulu showed him Dr Asvat’s surgery and that Winnie Mandela hired him and an accomplice to assassinate the doctor. Our witnesses, Katiza Cebekhulu and Reggie Jana, say the opposite was true, ...