LITTLE, William

A good policeman at the unit was identified by the amount of hours of hard work he had put in, and definitely you had to be anti-ANC in a very strong manner. // We were shown video tapes and we saw people we were being necklaced by tyres and we saw houses were burnt down and people were killed. We ...

The accused were sentenced to 18, 17 years but today they are outside and only God will answer. I just want to know why did they kill my brother. // The deep rifts between mister Nkumbi and the man sentenced for killing his brother reflect the rifts within the community of Kwesi. Both of them are ...

Cape Town amnesty hearings: Applicants Jeffrey Benzien and William Liebenberg

William Nkumbi insists that they would have managed to run away from the comrades had it not been for that first stone that tripped his brother, a stone he insists was thrown by Samson Booysen. // I can’t say who killed him because that day it was the comrades who were there in his house till ...

... a no-go zone. But then on Christmas eve 1985 Tomazile Nkumbi decided to fetch some belongings from his wife’s house in the township. His brother William was with him. When the comrades spotted them in the township the police escort had already left. // And then we started to run, come to this ...

... at the time the Western Cape had a spate of major terrorism trials, which resulted in lengthy prison sentences for the MK cadres. Jeffrey Benzien, William Liebenberg and Jakobus Griebenauw were some of the security men responsible for putting them behind bars. They now admit that their secret ...

Frans Stefanus Erasmus and William Basil Harrington were 18 when they joined the police. After their basic training they were posted to war torn KwaZulu-Natal. Here they worked in a riot unit with another young policeman, special constable Nhlanhla Philemon Mdlala. Four years later these three ...

William Makulani is the only other member of the 26 who still lives in Victoria West. He was also the one most severely tortured by the police and it is for this that he went to the Truth Commission. // Because they beat me up so badly for something I did not do. // But was there any truth in the ...

I stood up straight with my one foot on his chest and his throat. Dlamini had his shotgun with him. I told Nhlanhla to shoot the ANC dog. // Of course I had this will of killing Mr. Jama. Because I wanted him to die as well, to follow those people whom he killed, it was IFP members. That’s when I ...

Vendaland was ideal guerrilla territory, close to the border countries friendly to the ANC and PAC. Mountainous and clustered with orchards of bananas and avocadoes. But it was the support of Vendaland’s people that made the difference for liberation armies. Willie Mudau, a former black ...

They believed that they would not be prosecuted for killing an ANC member. // When I joined the riot squad our commanding officer was Major Terreblanche. He informed me that the ANC, we had to fight the ANC with all our might, that they were our enemies and that if we should be prosecuted or get ...

I never told Benzien or anybody else in so many words to assault any of these mentioned people or to make use of the wet-bag method during interrogation. After the first incident during which Jacobs was subjected to the method by Benzien I was however aware of his modus operandi. As set out above, ...

Four boers approached us and they asked us why were we parking there and we told them that we have just parked. We’re doing nothing. The other one got out of the car and broke the window and he grabbed me by my arm. They got hold of me and they assaulted me; they even fiddled with my private ...

They argued that as riot policemen in KwaZulu-Natal they had to assist the IFP. They said the police was openly involved in IFP gun running and third force activities. // There were weekly meetings and discussions between Inkatha leaders and high ranking officers of the unrest squad. And that is ...

... of political detainees as well as for the killing of Cape activist Ashley Kriel. This week he was joined by two of his superiours. Superintendent William Liebenberg is also asking for amnesty for torture. And the man who commanded them both, retired Major-General Kobus Griebenauw came to ...

Superintendant William Liebenberg has also applied for amnesty for the torture of the same group of detainees as Captain Benzien. He did not admit to much more than slapping, but as Benzien’s immediate superiour he admitted that he knew torture was happening.

... Weerstandsbeweging right-wingers behaved as if South Africa belonged to them only. Many people fell victim to their indiscriminate violence. William Nxanxa, a taxi driver was parked beside the road outside Ottosdal one morning in September ...

... the Gugulethu Seven cell, Jimmy Mbane, will testify. But it is interesting to note that the Cape security policemen like Dolf Odendaal and William Liebenberg have not applied for amnesty. One wonders if they will be prosecuted for their role in the killings. That decision would be up to ...

... Mphahlele // Matlabase Matlala // Vuma Ntikinca // Rocky Dlova // J Chintsela Bongwana // Boy Boy Mbethe // David Kongwane // Bongina Dlamini // William Ngwenya // Mangelengele Zibi // Madodana Fihla // Mosoeu Magalefa // Sydney Mabusela // Mandla // Thapelo // Ntoboloho // Thembelani Xundu // ...

Victoria West is a sleepy town in the middle of the Great Karoo. But it, like most other towns dotted across this vast landscape, carries its battle scars from the past. The first dates back to false rumours of an attack on white inhabitants of the town in 1968. The other took place almost 20 years ...