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GONIWE, MatthewAge Description In a way one cannot speak about the Eastern Cape, that axis of eighties resistance, without resurrecting the name of the late Matthew Goniwe. Father of Cradock and founder of the United Democratic Front in the region Goniwe’s impact resonated throughout the hearings held in his hometown this ... ... under protection. It further covers the HRV hearings in Cradock (10 to 12 February) and includes testimonies from a former student of Matthew Goniwe, Xolile Ntozini; and Mxolisi Mgoboza and Thembinkosi Tshabe, the youngest victims of police violence to speak before the TRC. The final ... ... led us to discover the truth about many mysterious murders carried out by the security police. The Motherwell bomb attack, the killing of Matthew Goniwe and three others, known as the Cradock Four, Siphiwo Mtimkulu, Sizwe Kondile and the Pebco Three. These men have finally told the families how ... ‘Trojan Horse Killing NO PROSECUTION’ // It is well known that politically motivated crimes often did not make it to the courts and perpetrators remained faceless and nameless. // ‘Ribeiro Assassinations NO PROSECUTION’ // This is particularly so in the many many cases where Security ... ... the UDF offices in Port Elizabeth. I also phoned Derrick Swarts and Maoli Blackburn to establish their whereabouts. Derrick Swarts informed me that Matthew left with his friends for Cradock the previous night, the 27th of June, 1985 at about 9 pm. You can imagine the shock, and I shivered to ... Dorothy is the eldest daughter of the late Fort Calata, one of the four murdered activists known as the Cradock Four. Humbulelo is the late Matthew Goniwe’s nephew. They too do not regret their loss, but like the other families insist that the truth is one route to reconciliation. Missing details protected the perpetrators at two inquests into the murders of Matthew Goniwe, prominent Cradock activist and teacher, Sparrow Mkonto, Fort Calata and Sicelo Mhlauli. The Cradock Four disappeared in June 1985 while travelling between Cradock and Port Elizabeth. Their burnt bodies ... ... They would take my hair and they would tell me to swallow my hair. This happened for a long time. They wanted to know my relationship with Matthew Goniwe and others. I told them that I just heard about Matthew ... A year later Matthew Goniwe was dead. But he left one more comrade in his wake. Xolile became a fiery leader in Middelburg, the security police headquarters for surrounding rural towns. Like Goniwe he was immediately a target for the state. He was detained several times and badly tortured. // By ... On the night of June 26, 1985 Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sicelo Mhlauli and Sparrow Mkonto were on their way back to Cradock after attending a meeting in Port Elizabeth. Just before midnight they were pulled off the road by three security policemen Capt Sakkie van Zyl, Lt Eric Taylor and Sgt ... On the night of June 27, 1985 Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkonto, Fort Calata and Sicelo Mhlauli left a UDF meeting in Port Elizabeth and set out to drive home to Cradock. They were never seen alive again. Their mutilated, charred corpses were discovered days later in three different places along the ... ... weapon in South Africa. // ‘It was consistent with the patterns of the past. Scores of assassinations remain unsolved. Richard Turner, Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkonto, David Webster, Ruth First and Dulcie September are but a ... The JMC had decided to act against the recommendation by the education department to reinstate Matthew Goniwe as principle of his high school in Cradock. This committee was the so called source of the death signal, signed by the JMC chairman, Brig Joffel van der Westhuysen. Last year the TRC heard ... then the New Nation newspaper published a top secret message from Military Intelligence. It called for the permanent removal from society of Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata and others. The signal was sanctioned by the then Head of Military Intelligence, General Joffel van der Westhuizen. Mr. Justice ... ... the Truth Commission this week, Col. Niewoudt’s name was also linked to another well-known Eastern Cape murder mystery: the Cradock Four. Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkhonto and Sicelo Mhlauli were the leaders of the Cradock ratepayers’ association, like PEBCO an affiliate of the ... ... problem for the applicants is how to explain the killing of Sicelo Mhlauli. The three men targeted by Port Elizabeth security police were Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkonto and Fort Calata. But the fourth victim that night was Mhlauli. Was he killed just because he was in the wrong place at the ... But in 1976 the law caught up with Ntsebeza again. He was detained along with Matthew Goniwe and others for furthering the aims of communism. He was released in 1981 and had by then resolved what his role in the struggle would be. In May, 1992 the New Nation newspaper published a document said to be a military signal that called for the permanent removal of Matthew Goniwe from society. That signal was sent up from Port Elizabeth’s Joint Management Committee to the State Security Council. that three of his men were about to go the Dirk Coetzee route, exposing their involvement in security branch fraud as well as the murders of Matthew Goniwe and the Pebco Three. Niewoudt believed he had to stop them at all ... ... Three weeks before the declaration of a national state of emergency in July the burnt and mutilated bodies of Cradock High School principle Matthew Goniwe and three comrades were found in a deserted beach area outside Port Elizabeth. Police said circumstances surrounding their deaths were ... |
