LANGA, Ms (first name not given)

... focuses on the HRV Committee hearings held in Uitenhage and Durban during the last week of August. Segments from Uitenhage include the March 1985 Langa township massacre and the violent clashes between UDF supporting Amabutho and Africanist Ama-Afrika groups, following the forced removal of ...

in the work of the TRC’s Human Rights Violations Committee. On Tuesday the hearing was dedicated to a single event: a massacre which took place at Langa township on March 21 1985 when police shot and killed at least 19 people, though the community claims the number dead could be as high as 43. ...

TRC hearings, Uitenhage. The 21 March 1985 Langa township massacre

... was a bomb waiting to explode. The community had barely buried its dead when in 1986 it experienced the forced removal of 48 000 people from Langa to KwaNobuhle. The nationwide state of emergency saw mass detentions of the UDF leadership. Consumer and school boycotts were in full force. ...

... and killed by members of the Pan Africanist Student Organisation in Gugulethu near Cape Town in August 1993. This week her murderers asked for forgiveness from her family and friends and claimed a political motive for their roles in her death. ...

In 1993 more than 1500 people were killed in the orgies of violence that engulfed the East Rand townships near Johannesburg. Most of the violence was rooted in the political conflict between the supporters of the ANC, who were primarily township residents, and Inkatha hostel dwellers. Bloody ...

Union Buildings in Pretoria. In the sixties it was again an anti-pass law campaign that led to the shooting of 69 people at Sharpeville and three at Langa in Cape Town. // By the eighties the arrests were not stopping, but the law was cracking under the strain. It was becoming too expensive to ...

... a state of political tension as a result of student and teacher protests. On this day, PASO the PAC’s Students’ Organisation is re-launched at Langa High. Fiery political speeches are made by local PAC leaders; emotions run high. After the meeting a large crowd ends up in the nearby township ...

... as a group, each one telling their chapter of the story which began as it would end, with a funeral. Almost 2000 people planned to travel from Langa township to KwaNobuhle on the other side of Uitenhage for the burial of six people killed by police during a stay-away the week before. Tension ...

Union Buildings in Pretoria. In the sixties it was again an anti-pass law campaign that led to the shooting of 69 people at Sharpeville and three at Langa in Cape Town. // By the eighties the arrests were not stopping, but the law was cracking under the strain. It was becoming too expensive to ...

... And my bosses there were Doctors Ivor Lang and Benjamin Tucker of Steve Biko infamy. Port Elizabeth, 1985 was a nightmare. It was the year of the Langa massacre, of the death of the Cradock Four, of the disappearance of the Pebco three, of the declaration of the State of Emergency. I used to go ...