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STEYN, PJAge Description ... family. We also hear testimony from relatives of Michael Mthethwa and Simon Msweli, ANC members killed by policeman and amnesty applicant Hendrik Steyn, delivering a very different account of events to that of Steyn. The episode ends with a segment on human rights abuses in ANC rehabilitation ... At the last amnesty hearing in Durban a policeman who was also an IFP supporter applied for amnesty. Hendrik Steyn is serving an 18 year sentence for his involvement in the murders of two ANC members who were also members of a gang. The incident happened on the 14th of August 1992 at KwaMbunambi ... ... hearings held in Durban (12 to 14 August) focus on the killing of ANC members Samuel Msweli and Michael Mthethwa by former policeman Hendrik Steyn. The final segment explains the structure of the TRC and covers the first amnesty granted to Boy Diale and Christopher Makgale, who were ... Hendrik Jacobus Steyn, a former detective Warrant Officer in the Empangeni murder and robbery squad was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for the murder of Michael Mthethwa and Samuel Msweli in 1992. The two ANC members were injured in a shootout with security forces at this house in the Sekulu ... Steyn was worried that the two gang members would escape from custody, as had happened in the past and so would never be brought to justice. // I told the Defence Force people that they should shoot and if there were any queries about the deaths they should just say that they had died on their way ... Steyn wanted to shoot them with his own rifle because it could not be traced to the scene of the earlier shooting. // I then at the same distance fired at Samuel Msweli. After the first shot I fired two more shots just to make sure that he was dead. I thereafter fired two shots at Michael Mtetwa, ... ... actively involved with the ANC in any way. They eventually decided then, Capt Andy Taylor, Jerry Fourie and the military intelligence, Major Callie Steyn to bring in an army doctor whose name is not known to me. He was in brown uniform, with a drip with a so-called truth serum. // And what kind ... ... personal photos would infringe on these men and their constitutional right to privacy. Col Andy Taylor was in Swaziland on the orders of Gen JA Steyn, and in turn Taylor gave orders to informers within the ANC’s military wing. Phila Ndwandwe, guerrilla commander and breastfeeding mother was ... Many of the victims at the Nelspruit hearings this week were teenagers at a time when education was not necessarily academic. And it was difficult to distinguish between a playground and a war zone. In the mid-eighties they embraced the struggle for liberation determinedly regardless of the cost. ... Since members of the ANC and other liberal organisations were regarded as terrorists and therefore our enemies, we were taught that we had to act against them in a very serious manner. It was them or us. I believed in the political doctrines of the IFP and I supported them. They then went back to the police station. His commander, Col Nel, was also on his way there. // Upon his arrival at the police station I took him to one side and told him that I had shot the injured, I shot them dead. He then congratulated me personally and thereafter wanted to know whether I had ... Since members of the ANC and other liberal organizations were regarded as terrorists and therefore our enemies we were taught that we had to act against them in a very serious manner. It was them or us. I believed in the political doctrines of the IFP and I supported them. I then at the same distance fired at Simon Msweli. After the first shot I fired two more shots just to make sure that he was dead. I thereafter fired two shots at Michael Mthethwa, the other deceased. Earlier this year a policeman serving an 18 year jail sentence for killing two ANC members near Empangeni appeared before the Amnesty Committee. The relatives of these victims were not present then, but this week they told the Truth Commission the other side of the story Brigadier Jack Cronje, Vlakplaas commander from 1983 to 1985. Colonel Roelf Venter, Vlakplaas officer in 1984 and ’85. Captain Wouter Mentz, based at Vlakplaas from 1989 to ’92, contemporary of Eugene de Kock. Captain Jacques Hechter. Warrant officer Paul van Vuuren. These former police ... Cloetesville is the small, quiet and traditionally Coloured township outside Stellenbosch. It is here in September 1976 that Ronald Carolissen was shot by police in a period of recurring violence. His brother, Richard Carolissen gave an eyewitness account of the chaotic and brutal circumstances in ... It was a bloody, bloody war. Thousands were killed and many thousands more fled their homes. Allegations of who was responsible were flung to and fro. Today the ANC and the IFP still blame each other for the carnage that ripped their communities apart. // ‘We heard that they are coming to our ... One of these Defence Force people, who later became known to me during the court case as a Mr. Law shouted to us and confirmed that they had just come from the area where the shooting incident had taken place and he also said, here are the bloody dogs that killed the policemen. In the back of the ... ... had been injured and have been taken to the hospital. After they had left I would go see my husband at the hospital. // Warrant Officer Hendrik Steyn admitted that he killed the men. On his way to the scene of the incident he came across the bakkie in which the injured had been taken to ... ... This week they asked the Truth Commission’s Amnesty Committee to free them from jail. The murders were politically motivated they say Nantie Steyn produced this report. ... |
