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SIPHO, (other details unknown)Age Description Sipho Mutsi knew that beating and torture were in store for him. What he couldn’t know was that this time the [inaudible] than routine. // On this day, the 4th of May, it was just after breakfast, I saw comrade Sipho passing by the door. It was this steel door. The door was still open but the ... ... Kondile, the Pebco Three and the Cradock Four. It includes coverage of a commemoration ceremony by relatives of Siphiwo Mtimkulu, Topsy Madaka, Sipho Hashe, Qaquwuli Godolozi and Champion Galele, on the banks of the Fish River where their remains were disposed of by the police. The following ... activists who disappeared after they left the country for military training in the 1980s, and testimony on the death in detention of youth activist, Sipho Mutsi. ... Mtimkulu was leading a resurgence of student militancy in the Eastern Cape. On the 31st of May 1981, he was arrested during anti-republic day demonstrations in Port Elizabeth. Mtimkulu was in perfect health when he was incarcerated. When he emerged from detention five months later he was a shadow ... The Eastern Cape’s most notorious former security policeman: Lieutenant Colonel Gideon Niewoudt. According to Siphiwo one of the men who tortured him. But Gideon Niewoudt had been a visitor to the Mtimkulu household before the detention and disappearance of Siphiwo. // He came here pretending as ... While many young men skipped the country during the 1980s many others stayed behind. Sipho Mutsi was one of hundreds of students from the Welkom area detained by police. But unlike most of his comrades Sipho never made it home. ... and fellow detainee Patrick Motshedi revisited the cells where they were held in May 1985. It was here that they last saw their friend and comrade, Sipho Mutsi. ... All the while Joyce and Sipho Mtimkulu remained calm and dignified, but obviously with anger in their hearts. // Do you hate Van Rensburg? // Terribly. I am hating him terribly. // And Niewoudt? // All of them. And they kicked Sipho. Then Sithole began to hit him with a sjambok because Sithole said Sipho tried to burn his house. When I was still there we didn’t agree that allegation what Sithole made, that we were trying to burn his house. Then they ordered us to go out of the cell. I was taken to cell ... in the Commission in the hearing and so forth. I’m staying with her, she’s my aunt, but I’m staying with her, she is very much the same as my mother. Patrick Madikane is her son. We grew together, we grew up together and he was like a young brother to me. ... ... is when I started feeling dizzy and I fell. // And look at me, I lost my husband. I lost a husband, and my children as well, lost a father. His mother lost her only child. The only child that was taking care of her. // Yes I would have been prepared to forgive. But I hear the manner in which ... ... was removed. This was done until I lost consciousness several times. Each time I fell on my back. At times he will sit on my back and hit me. The others would kick me like …Dunster while doing pushups. The moment I stood up he would start boxing me … that is Dunster now… others will laugh ... Because it was the first time I was going to hear about how my son died, so I can say it meant a lot to me after so many years. This thing has been hidden. // I came to the hearings because I am interested in this thing, because I was three months old at that time. So when I realised this people, this police were becoming so serious about this matter of Nkosinati. I then decided to tell them the truth. I told them the truth. I told them what the whole situation was. And that situation they have it in their files. If they produced the files, they will find it. ... Siphiwo Maxwell Mtimkulu, leader of the Congress of South African Students. // He told me then. ‘Even if they can kill me, as long as they will be killing me for truth, and I am not doing what I’m doing for myself. I am doing it for my child for my grandchild and my grand grandchild. I am ... We need to know what happened to him, who is responsible, where are they buried so that we can pick up the pieces and give them a decent burial. That’s all we need from them. But he could not give us that. The widows from both sides of the conflict count the bodies of their loved ones heaping up in the village graveyards. Virginia Lombo lost her husband and breadwinner Lolo to a bullet fired by Nhlanhla Sibisi, an ANC cadre who also wants amnesty. ... Imbali support group. // We were sitting in the house, the Gabela house, that has experienced unspeakable terror, even from ’86 onwards because Sipho her son was a UDF member and a spokesperson for the youth. In ’89 Sipho was so severely injured by white policemen and Mama Gabela and Baba ... come and pick him up at the airport. But I’m telling you that was a clear, clear, clear operation, because, a professional operation, because from Sipho Hashe’s home, when he left his home we knew what was going on and when he picked up Golela we knew that they picked up Golela and when he ... Sipho and I were actually seen as very close friends and from time to time the police would say to us that if we could get rid of you and Sipho then everything would settle in Kutlwanong. Actually they did not understand that it was actually part of the whole process of the revolution, and that not ... |
