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VAN RENSBURG, (first name not given)Age Description In Cape Town a court is sitting. The lawyers representing Jan du Preez and Nick van Rensburg have filed application that Mrs. Mtimkulu must not climb that podium. We are waiting for the judgement to come anytime this morning and we have been ordered that we wait until the judgement comes. That ... ‘I call the applicant Mr Hermanus Barend du Plessis as the first witness in these proceedings.’ // Captain Hermanus du Plessis, Gen Nic van Rensburg, Gen Gerrit Erasmus and Sgt Johannes Raath, who have all since retried are seeking amnesty for their part in Sizwe Kondile’s death. Former ... ... station where they were given drinks spiked with sedatives and then shot. Their bodies were burnt and the remains thrown in the Fish River. Nick van Rensburg and Gideon Niewoudt are both applying for amnesty for their deaths. They are now admitting that they lied. At the Truth Commission ... not yet. I wish I could, because it’s too long. We are also going to die. I admit dying, everybody is going to die. Even Niewoudt is going to die; Van Rensburg is going to die. Whoever, is going to ... ... treated severely. He even said, the Boers have finished me, I am totally finished. There is nothing that you can do about me. Because Niewoudt and Van Rensburg, Du Preez and his team; Danster who always played karate on my child, were the people who are responsible for Siphiwo’s condition. You ... ... You feel that you are in this position today because they sold you out. // Yes, I was also disillusioned. // Your relationship with the generals, Van Rensburg specifically, he is one of the generals, isn’t he? // Yes, at last we have a general here. // Who does what? // Who admits he was ... Niewoudt and Van Rensburg faced heavy cross examination on the motives for the bombing. The point of the cross examination was to find out if Niewoudt and his men carried out the explosion for their own reasons, namely to cover their fraudulent and murderous tracks, or if the bombing was ... 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. ... of our husbands and children got thrown here in plastic bags, our God, by the Boers. Forces that had immense power, like Niewoudt, our God, like Van Rensburg, our God. Forces that imposed tyranny ... Van Rensburg says he called his colleague Dirk Coetzee to ask for assistance in the murder. The security police then faked Kondile’s release from the Jeffrey’s Bay police cells and later abducted him and drove him to the border at Komatipoort. This week, almost a year later, the four policemen Nicolas Janse van Rensburg, Hermanus Barend De Plessis, Johannes Gottfried Raath and Gerhard Nicolas Erasmus came to ask for amnesty for the murder. They never spoke at the hearing. Their lawyers argued that Dirk Coetzee’s amnesty application ... ... these men to the killings of activists like Steve Biko, Siphiwo Mtimkulu, Sizwe Kondile, the Pebco Three or the Cradock Four. Gideon Niewoudt, Nick van Rensburg, Harold Snyman, Gerhardus Lotz, Daantjie Siebert, Ruben Marx and Eric Taylor. Perhaps the dramatic part of this story is the amazing web ... |
