JIM, Richard

put up a terrible fight, made a lot of noise and the moment I managed to restrain him we shot him and we left the house. // After we struggled with Richard Motasi and Capt Hechter placed the pillow over his head and I shot him four times with an AK47 rifle, before this incident I’d never met ...

exile. Ill treatment, paranoia, torture and executions in ANC camps in neighbouring states. But first the story of Tshidiso Motasi. In 1987 Sergeant Richard Motasi and his wife Busisiwe were murdered by a police hit squad. The policemen claim they were ordered to kill their colleague because he ...

... existence of the so-called third force. The revelations came to light at a joint news conference by state president FW de Klerk and mister Justice Richard Goldstone yesterday. // The 36 page interim report contained allegations involving top police officials including deputy police commissioner ...

... outside Stellenbosch. It is here in September 1976 that Ronald Carolissen was shot by police in a period of recurring violence. His brother, Richard Carolissen gave an eyewitness account of the chaotic and brutal circumstances in which his brother ...

... us to go out of the cell. I was taken to cell number 3 in that police station. And I believe it’s after two days that a certain lawyer called Richard Spoor, he was in the firm of Priscilla Janna. Then he asked me, do I know that Sipho has died. I was affected. Then I said I don’t believe ...

The most surprising and exciting moment in Richard Lyster’s life was when he heard the news that he had been appointed to join the Truth Commission.

Sergeant Richard Motasi was a diligent policeman with no record of complaint against him in 11 years’ service, but in September 1984 he was hit on the ear by a Colonel. That started a series of events that eventually led to his death.

Victims of police attacks did not always have famous names. Richard Carolissen and his brother ran into a block of flats to escape a police shooting in a Stellenbosch township in 1976. That’s where Ronald Carolissen was shot dead in cold blood.

Richard Lyster was born to a Catholic family in Durban in 1953 and has lived in Kwazulu-Natal for most of his life.

St. James today looks like any other church in the suburbs. Inside its quiet, sun slanting down onto pews, hymn books neatly arranged for the next service. On Sundays more than a thousand people file into its vast interior, but on a stormy Sunday’s night in July four years ago, shortly after the ...

APLA as a unit, that is APLA high command, is shouldering responsibility of all the activities that took place since its inception in 1961 till the cut-off date that is May 1994.