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SWANEPOEL, AAge Description ... by hanging and that no blame could be attached to any person.3 THE COMMISSION FINDS THAT JAMES LENKOE WAS INTERROGATED BY MAJOR ‘ROOI RUS’ SWANEPOEL AND THAT HE WAS TORTURED USING ELECTRIC SHOCKS. WHILST THE OFFICIAL CAUSE OF DEATH WAS SUICIDE BY HANGING, THE COMMISSION FINDS THE POLICE ... from the security establishment continued to believe that too little force had been used and that more force would actually have prevented deaths. Swanepoel also believed that firmer action should have been taken and that many officers were “dragging their feet” and were reluctant to use ... ... training in France at some point during the first half of the 1960s: Hendrik van den Bergh (then head of the Security Branch), TJ ‘Rooi Rus’ Swanepoel, DK Genis, Lieutenant Daantjie ‘Kardoesbroek’ Rossouw, G Klindt, a Major Brits (from the Railway Police), a Lieutenant van der Merwe ... ... of Spoornet Security was composed of former members of the special forces who orchestrated the violence on trains. 660 SAP member Mr Wayne Hugh Swanepoel, who applied to the Commission for amnesty [AM3727/96], to the Commission, implied that there was a link between the SADF and the SAP in ... ... it is understood that during the 1960s this station was under the command of Colonel Theunis Jacobus ‘Rooi Rus’ Swanepoel. Kairos refers to Swanepoel as a notorious police officer who played a key role in the 1960s and later became the chief interrogator of the SAP’s Security Branch.11 ... ... SUMMERS, Freddie SUNDUZA, Sifiso SUNDUZA, Sithembiso Christopher SUNDUZA, Solomon Mandlenkosi Mazibuko SUTHU, Nothozayo SWAARTBOOI, Themba Simon SWANEPOEL, Willem SWART, Basil SWARTBOOI, Bushy Voltaire SWARTBOOI, Buyelwa Gladys SWARTBOOI, Eric Buyisile SWARTBOOI, Melvin Khayalethu SWARTBOOI, ... given to maintain order at all costs.” All outdoor public meetings were banned in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act. 110 Captain ‘Rooi Rus’ Swanepoel, who gave the crowds of Sowetan school children the order to disperse on 16 June and led the Riot Unit into Soweto and Alexandra, said ... ... Africa
Dharma Centre
Dutch Reformed Church, Stellenbosch Circuit
Dutch Reformed Church, Western and Southern Cape
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Evangelical Alliance of South Africa
GESHER (Jewish Movement for Social Action)
Ibandla Lama Nazareth
Institute for Contextual ... ... van Wyk is the individual most consistently associated with torture in the Western Cape over a thirty year period. Mr Theunis ‘Rooi Rus’ Swanepoel is also among those mentioned frequently in submissions to the Commission. 59 A special ‘screening centre’ was created at the ... Jacob Monnakgotla. Each had been detained because of his involvement in local disputes about chiefly powers. Again, the name of Major ‘Rooi Rus’ Swanepoel was mentioned, this time in connection with the arrest of ten Bakubung tribe members, one of whom was Jacob Monnakgotla. 89 Mr Nicomedus ... ... July 1963 with Mr Arthur Goldreich, Mr Harold Wolpe and Mr Mosie Moolla. 49 Most of these detainees identified Captain Theunis Jacobus 'Rooi Rus' Swanepoel as one of the perpetrators involved in their interrogation. General van den Berg, head of BOSS at the time, also appears to have also been ... ... March 1965, under the guise of an engineering company. The camp was under the command of former sabotage squad member, Major Theunis ‘Rooi Rus’ Swanepoel. The role of the camp was to monitor SWAPO activity. Sixteen months later, SAP units were deployed to the area in response to SWAPO’s ... ... around the country, its recruits were drawn largely from those with counter-insurgency training. Thus, for example, Colonel Theunis 'Rooi Rus' Swanepoel, veteran of the sabotage squad and Ongulumbashe, was drafted into Soweto on 16 June 1976 to command a riot unit which was responsible for a ... and the SAP clash at Ongulumbashe, SWA/Namibia, in a battle that marks the start of SWAPO’s armed struggle. SAP forces are led by ‘Rooi Rus’ Swanepoel. The UN General Assembly terminates South Africa’s SWA mandate. Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is assassinated in the House of ... ... OF TORTURE THAT RESULTED IN MANY DEATHS AFTER DETENTION. THE COMMISSION FINDS THAT COLONEL CJ DRYER, A POLICEMAN LAMPRECHT, AND COLONEL THEUNIS SWANEPOEL, WHO WERE BASED AT MKAMBATI FOREST POLICE STATION, PLAYED A LEADING ROLE IN THE TORTURE OF DETAINEES. THE COMMISSION RECEIVED VARIOUS ... Political prisoners and detainees in South Africa. Preliminary report, November 1996, pp 5–6; and Kairos, Torture in South Africa, Theunis Jacobus Swanepoel, February 1977, p 26. 6 Kairos (1997) p 26. ... open. Throughout the week, Defence Force personnel (approximately 100 men) and six military vehicles did not venture beyond Edendale Road. Brigadier Swanepoel, the Commanding Officer of the Pietermaritzburg-based Group 9 at the time of the Seven Day War, told the Commission that he had realised ... ... the randomness of the attacks combined with their military precision pointed to people with Special Forces training. 134 SAP member Wayne Hugh Swanepoel, who applied for amnesty [AM3727/96], stated that he and others in his unit were involved in throwing people from the trains around 1988 ... ... was recruited by Sergeant Skekheshe Ntombela of the Security Branch in March 1985 or earlier. He was handled by Ntombela and a Brigadier Pieter Swanepoel and underwent training from March 1985 to September 1985. The training is alleged to have included poisoning food and the use of firearms. ... ... he had asylum status) to Zambia and handed over to the South African security police. After severe torture at the hands of Major ‘Rooi Rus’ Swanepoel and others, he was tried and sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment. 1970–1979 332 A South African refugee in Lesotho, Mr Herbert ... |
