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VAN WYK, Leon

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Was arrested with ten other friends in Carnarvon, Cape, on 16 June 1986, for wearing black ties commemorating those who died in the Soweto uprising. He was repeatedly beaten by named members of the SAP at the police station and detained for seventy two days under emergency regulations at Carnarvon and then at Victor Verster prison, Paarl, Cape. See police brutality.

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... Naredi Louis SAUL, Thando Amos SAVAGE, Beth SAWONI, Mhanjiswa SCHAKAZA, Hleziphi Dorah SCHEEPERS, Glenda SCHERMBRUCKER, Gillian SCHOEMAN, Peter Ivan SCHOEMAN, Pieter SEABO, Kenneth Tebogo SEAKAMELA, Betty Maria SEAKAMELA, Podu Philemon SEAKAMELA, Ramokoni Maria SEAKGOA, Madibo Shadrack ...
... BARON, Roseline BARROW, Bradley BARTLETT, Mogamat Nurudien BARTON, James Allan Petros BAS, Samuel BASA, Mhlangabezi BASE, Charlie BASE, Shoni BASE, Vanish BASHE, Monwabisi Livingstone BASI, Khanyisile BASI, Mdedelwa BASI, Michael Mandlenkosi BASI, Mkhanyiselwa BASOPU, Mike BASSON, Maria BASSON, ...
... even go to work because of this. 83 Even families where activists had gone into exile were not free from harassment by the security forces. Mr Leon Meyer was an MK activist who was killed in Lesotho in a South African Defence Force (SADF) cross-border raid in 1985. At the Mdantsane hearing, ...
occupied by Mr Joe Gqabi when he was killed five years earlier. 451 A feature of this raid is that Zimbabwean security forces appear to have had advance warning of it and the three occupants of the house (a South African couple and a Zimbabwean) were fetched from the house by security force ...
... included De Kock, Almond Nofemela, Jeff Bosigo, and a number of Eastern Transvaal security police including Sergeant Chris Rorich, Captain Paul van Dyk, and Warrant Officer ‘Freek’ Pienaar. 249 A third person in the house was the second-in-command of the MK’s Natal machinery, Mr Edward ...
... South West Africa during which a security guard was killed. Arrested soon afterwards, the three escaped back to South Africa when the police van in which they were travelling was ambushed by two white men (known to the Commission only by the pseudonyms of ‘Archer’ and ‘Barker’) who ...
... Minister ‘Pik’ Botha submitted responses to the Commission’s questions that were rich in detail, while former Ministers Roelf Meyer and Leon Wessels frankly acknowledged the wrongs of the former ruling party’s past. Mr Wessels cast doubt on the argument by members of the former ...
... of combating resistance. This shift was conceded by numerous high-ranking security force members, including former police commissioner Johan van der Merwe (see above quotation). 92 At the Commission’s hearings on the SSC, senior politicians and some senior military and intelligence ...
responsible for certain western Cape activity, that is, Mr Joseph Monwabisi ‘Themba’ Mayoli [CT00826], Mr Vivian Stanley Mathee [CT00431] and Mr Leon ‘Joe’ Meyer [CT00431]. 114 What began as student boycotts shifted in early August 1985 to broader political mobilisation and a consumer ...
and drove together to a dirt road, where Bopape’s body was moved from the boot of Lieutenant Zeelie’s car to the boot of a car driven by Captain van Loggerenberg of the Eastern Transvaal Security Branch. 347 Van Loggerenberg drove to the Komati River, near a picnic spot frequented by police ...
... of our law. That inevitably led to the fact that the capabilities of the SAP, especially the security forces, included illegal acts. (General Johan van der Merwe, former commissioner of police, armed forces hearing.) There was never any lack of clarity about ‘take out’ or ‘eliminate’, it ...
... MARIPA, Suzan Kelebugile MARKLOE, Martin MARKS, Elizabeth MAROBELA, Hellen MAROEKOANE, Anah MAROGA, Lazarus MAROLA, Andrew Thozamile MAROPE, Evans MAROTI, Kholekile Charles MARRAND, Wellington Thembinkosi MARTIN, Belinda MARTIN, Kevin Peter Robert MARTIN, Muzi Mongezi MARTIN, Vuyelwa Joyce ...
... will never be solved at the level at which they are created. This is my main reservation about the structure of the report. The Act is far more advanced in terms of conflict resolution than is the frame of the report. The Act has as its focus gross human rights violations. The Act does not put ...
... Approximately ten operatives participated in the ambush, including two askaris. Of the operatives, those who applied for amnesty were Sergeant Leon Flores [AM4361/96], De Kock and Captains Riaan Bellingan [AM5283/97] and Petrus Snyders [AM5286/97]. 375 According to De Kock, the operation ...
... Others involved in sub-management were Ferdi Barnard (for a brief period) and Alan Trowsdale. Region 8 (South West Africa) was headed by Roelf van Heerden (aka Roelf van der Westhuizen). 399 Joe Verster estimated that the CCB undertook between 170 and 200 projects. These included ...
... in these bombings. During their amnesty hearing, the group claimed to have acted on orders from General Nico Prinsloo (and Brigadier Leon van der Merwe). The applicants are Mr Nicolaas ‘Cliffie’ Barnard [AM6484/97], Mr Abraham Liebrecht ‘Koper’ Myburgh [AM6465/97], Mr Etiene ...
... attempts to overthrow Holomisa. These included Jan Anton Nieuwoudt [AM3813/96], Eugene de Kock [AM0066/96], Daniel Lionel Snyman [AM3766/96], Leon William John Flores [AM3766/96], Nicholaas Johannes Vermeulen [AM4358/96], Willem Albertus Nortjé [AM3764/96] and Marthinus David Ras jnr ...
with the activities of Region Six.9 3 These involved the attempted killing of UDF Western Cape Chair Abdullah Omar, the planned killing of Mr Gavin Evans, an End Conscription Campaign member, the bombing of the Early Learning Centre in Athlone Cape Town on 31 August 1989, and the harassment of ...
... related to activities in the mid-1970s by Stratcom operatives. These applications provided details of a range of threatening actions including vandalising cars and property and making threatening phone calls. Condoned by commanders, this behaviour developed into more serious attacks such as ...
... psychological warfare waged by both conventional and unconventional means. Its earlier activities involved random acts of intimidation such as the vandalising of property, the making of threatening phone calls and so on. Later it involved actions such as the unlawful establishing of arms caches ...
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