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VAN DER BANK, SAge Description There’s another matter Chairperson which you might want to refer to which was I think was described at the time as the Silverton bank siege. This is the only instance in which cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe took hostages. There were three cadres who were going on some operation. They realised that ... I heard the field commander reporting to Colonel van der Bank with great concern that his position was under attack or under fire. I cannot recall his exact words. He further reported that his position was being approached at speed. He sought advice from Colonel van der Bank and asked whether he ... ... right wingers who opened fire on a Putco bus outside Durban, killing seven people. In Pretoria we hear testimonies from survivors of the Silverton bank siege and the Church Street bombing carried out by Umkhonto we Sizwe and also from the sister of Leon Meyer ? who was killed in the 1985 Maseru ... Lunchtime January 25, 1980. Three Umkhonto we Sizwe storm into the Silverton branch of Volkskas bank, but it wasn’t a robbery. It is one of MK’s strangest operations. They kept 25 people hostage for six hours. The Silverton bank siege and the Church street bombing When the National Party came to power in 1948 it was also a major boost to Afrikaner business. The Truth Commission asked this week, did they benefit from apartheid and the National Party government that was running the country at the time? came the mistaken identity case, so called when I was charged in the most bizarre terms with the theft of €490 of fivers from a branch of Barclays Bank that we previously demonstrated against, a few hundred yards from my home in Putney in south west London. I think there’s a lot of evidence ... the Ciskei Defence Force. He was stationed in an operations room rigged up in the National Assembly building. Deputy commander, Colonel Dirk van der Bank was stationed on the roof of the legislative building. Commandant Archie Mkosana was at the head of the troops in the field. Meanwhile, a march ... ... I can be saved from the oppression. Van der … came after I’ve agreed to their story and then they said they were going to take photos at Trust Bank, George street, where this all took place. They alleged that we got training so we had to agree that we got training from that area. They also ... Upon confirmation by Colonel van der Bank that the crowd was firing at the field commander’s troops and was storming their position I confirmed that the troops were authorized to fire, meaning those troops who were in immediate danger. One of the hostages was Annamaria Landman, a senior official at the bank. // It took about an hour before we realised it wasn’t a robbery. We had just received money and the safe door was ajar. Somebody said they should take all the money. They said they were not interested in the money. We ... ... a death certificate. I want to know what happened to the inquest. // Willem de Klerk knows that the man who killed his wife also died in the bank, but he wants to know who else was involved. // I would just like to say that everybody that was part of this everybody who took part in the ... Two violent actions by ANC guerrillas shook the foundations of white Pretoria in the 1980s. The Silverton bank seize of January 1980 and the massive car bomb in Church street in May 1983. The Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee focused on these two bloody events in Pretoria this ... Bellingan admitted under cross examination that he could have given the order to shoot to kill but denied that it was a carefully planned ambush. He says the Gugulethu operation was the kind of operation that the police would carry out to pre-empt a bank robbery. My personal feeling was almost that is was a situation similar to having to foil a bank robbery. If you know that the people are armed, and the situation in the black townships was ungovernable at the time, I was of the opinion that this was not going to be a Sunday school picnic and that we would ... |
