ROBERT, K

We were over 60 in number I don’t remember exactly however, we grouped into two. The others had to attack one of the homesteads nearby. // We started… we hit the door, there was a hew in the door and we used it to hack the door. The door opened and we shot at the people and we also stabbed them ...

Umkhonto we Sizwe soldier Robert McBride was given three death sentences for planting the bomb. After four years on death row he was reprieved and in 1991 given amnesty. He is now a diplomat at the Department of Foreign Affairs. This made the sisters of one of those killed in the Why not Bar, ...

... State regions. What has become known as the Magoo?s Bar bombing is covered, including testimonies from victims and an interview with the MK bomber Robert McBride. Relatives of victims of the 1985 Maseru raid by Vlakplaas operatives give testimony, as well as relatives of victims from the ...

This week, the mother of Robert Beech told the Truth Commission in Benoni that this was just one of many Defence Force lies. Robert was awarded a Pro Patria Medal and an accompanying letter stated that he would not have received it had the mission been unauthorized. In its submission to the Truth ...

On Friday we met with Robert McBride in the gardens of the Union Buildings where he now works. // This particular operation cannot be seen in isolation to what the state was doing. It was after a period of a number of cross-border raids in which men, women and children, mostly not even members of ...

Alright, can I have a question from Robert Brand first, from The Star? // Our country’s full of people like PW Botha and Adriaan Vlok and Johan van der Merwe who are going to apply for amnesty. If these people get amnesty, and a lot of people remain in public positions, government jobs, get state ...

... On June 14 in 1986 a powerful car bomb exploded at the Why not Bar, also known as Magoo’s in Durban. Three patrons died and 67 were injured. Robert McBride had placed the bomb. Zharah Narkedien was involved in reconnaissance and ...

... its independence in 1980. That is the official version, yet in 1982 three white South African soldiers died on Zimbabwean soil. The SADF had a quick explanation, but could it have been a smoke screen for South African involvement in the Matebele land uprising in the early ...

The battle between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party has torn communities apart. Richmond in KwaZulu-Natal is one of many regions that bear terrible scars of the continuing conflict. This week, IFP perpetrators and ANC families met face to face at an amnesty hearing in Pietermaritzburg. The ...

I am sincerely sorry. I know that I can’t really say anything, that it is sad for you but I am also very sorry. // You are not sorry; it’s just that you are brave to ask this of us. But it’s up to you to forgive yourself. // Oh! My son! // I went to pay for the pregnancy damages my son did ...

I spoke to Capt van Zyl. I believe after all the years that it took place in my office. At that stage I also spoke to Capt Niewoudt and explained to them what the problem was that we were faced with. I can just mention that Mr. Niewoudt and Mr. Van Zyl at that stage were completely aware of the ...

the cleanup operation before four in the morning and then that evening it was four special constables and myself. // Who gave you the instruction to kill? Was that Major Terreblanche? // Yes the orders came from him that these comrades must be taken out. The whole operation went wrong, where the ...

... but it’s also a dishonour, because violence is something unreasonable. I read once that violence is the lowest form of human behaviour. Actually, Robert was very emotional after that incident, contrary to what the people have made him out to be, and OK what he’s made himself out to be. This ...

... to Islam Zara was known as Greta Appelgren, a fiery activist from Wentworth in Natal. In 1986 she was recruited into an Umkhonto we Sizwe unit by Robert McBride. She was willing because she was already very frustrated with aboveground political ...

Two years later activists again gathered at a grave, this time to lay to rest Robert Waterwitch and Coline Williams. But the victims of Bonteheuwel’s violent confrontation with apartheid are not only the ones lying in Cape Town’s graveyards. For every martyr there are many many more grappling ...

... to 40 years imprisonment. These men are the last remaining South African agents imprisoned anywhere in the world. The government of President Robert Mugabe has stubbornly refused to release ...

// Emmanuel Mzimela // Phila Ndwandwe // Bheki Mkwanasi // Oupa Lukhele // Blessing Ninela // Pumezo Nxiweni // Ntombi Kubheka // Brian Ngqulunga // Robert Mokoena // 12 Unidentified bodies exhumed in ...

Two years later activists again gathered at a grave, this time to lie to rest Robert Waterwitch and Coline Williams. But the victims of Bonteheuwel’s violent confrontation with apartheid are not only the ones lying in Cape Town’s graveyards. For every martyr there are many, many more grappling ...

In October Hoare sent his brother in law, Robert Sims to establish a safe house on the Seychelles. Dolinschek arrived in Mahé on November 14th, two weeks ahead of D day.

... must bring the body back. All we want to know is where the body is. // I don’t feel happy about the situation because they lied. All we want is Robert back. We don’t even get a reply let alone ”I’m sorry.” Nothing. ...