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HADEBE, IdaAge 44 Description ... (East London, 29 to 30 July). The following segment focuses on the still unsolved 27 October 1992 assassination of KwaZulu-Natal activist, Reggie Hadebe. We are given some background to the December 1988 Trust Feed massacre, when police opened fire on people attending a night vigil, killing 11. ... Reggie Hadebe was meant to be a survivor. In the 1970s when most avenues of protest were closed he was a rising star in Inkatha. By the time the UDF began pushing against apartheid in the 1980s, he was again prominent. When Nelson Mandela walked out of prison Reggie Hadebe was the ANC’s deputy ... The assassination of Reggie Hadebe This is the Hadebe family home in Pietermaritzburg. Reggie never saw it. After surviving several assassination attempts the charismatic ANC leader took out insurance on his life. A few months later the policy was called in. A practicing Catholic, Reggie was looking forward to the birth of his ... counts of murder, two counts of robbery and two counts of illegal possession of firearms, has told The Natal Witness how members of his unit planned Hadebe’s assassination and how Hadebe, Harry Gwala’s right hand man, was identified to the killers. // Mbhele said a prominent tribal figure in ... So when you ask her ‘who’s your father?’ she will tell you ‘Reggie.’ ‘Where is he?’ I have photos in my bedroom and in the lounge. She’ll say ‘there’s my father.’ So, she knows him through the photos. I don’t know. Reggie Hadebe’s widow, Sibongile, a highly skilled obstetrics nurse is trying to escape four years of bad memories. // Since my husband died, I’m still having that heartache, especially because I don’t know who killed him. It’s three and a half years now and yet I don’t know who killed ... So thus the investigation that I’m doing, because nothing so far has been done with that man who has just confessed. So, I’m trying to do something about it. ... We’re also visiting the Natal Midlands, heart of South Africa’s many civil wars. We investigate the assassination of senior ANC member Reggie Hadebe and the Trust Feed massacre. But first we go to East London. 12 ANC members of Mdantsane this week asked the Truth Commission’s Amnesty ... Detective inspector Groenewald is now attached to the Midlands branch of the investigative task unit. One of his many responsibilities is the unsolved murder of Reggie Hadebe. He has no eye witnesses and no guns. ... IFP hit squad mastermind Daluxolo Luthuli claims he was involved in the October 1992 assassination of KwaZulu-Natal Midlands ANC leader Reggie Hadebe and that he carried out one of the worst mass murders in the province.’ // ‘Mr Luthuli, a former Umkhonto we Sizwe soldier and IFP field ... ... pattern of violence you just described by these persons on your instructions? // Yes, I remember Chief Mlaba, Zazi Khuzwayo, Chief Mapumulo, Reggie Hadebe and many others whom I don’t ... ‘Matola Mozambique January 1981’ // The Matola raid was in January 1981, it was a combined operation in a planning sense; it was planned by two senior figures in the security establishment. Jacques Buchner was one from the SAP side and a Major Steijn from the South African Defence Force. They ... |
