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SITHOLE, Sipho

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Was shot dead with a friend, and their shack was burnt down by members of an ANC self-defence unit (SDU) and ANC-supporting residents in the Power Park squatter camp, Soweto, Johannes-burg, on 9 April 1994. The residents suspected them of being IFP supporters. One SDU member was granted amnesty (AC/1999/0319).

... were taking me from my cell they said I should come and see what is happening to Sipho. He had a cut beneath his chin. The time when I was in there Sithole took the sjambok and hit him. Sipho seemed to be the person who was already beaten before I arrived. One of the policemen was a white one, ...
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.
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 ...
 
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