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APLAExplanation Showing 201 to 220 of 356 First Page•Previous Page 7 •8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 Next Page•Last Page... the application for amnesty should not be refused on the ground that the applicant and his victim, in count 1, were both members of the PAC and APLA, that is the victims was not a political enemy. Evidence submitted before the TRC by Liberation Movements, including the PAC, show that people ... ... in or about 1992 was Moeketsi Johannes Jikile. The Applicant was the main role player in the tubing of Jikile who was being questioned about APLA farm attacks in the Orange Free State region. Having been arrested at his home he was held at Botshabelo Police Station near Bloemfontein and ... MR MALUSI: I am Tembekile Malusi, representing the victims with regard to the death of the APLA 5 in Port St Johns. The same pattern followed - he was taken to an adjacent farm and shot on the pretext that he tried to escape in a Gumtree bush. The applicant further testified that he believed the deceased was a member of APLA. ... of this incident we are not satisfied that the Applicant's actions were sufficiently aimed at furthering the political struggle and objectives of APLA and the PAC, but appear rather to have been aimed at improving the conditions of his incarceration whilst awaiting trial. Accordingly amnesty ... MR PRINSLOO: Chairperson, at that stage according to my knowledge, all the members of Vlakplaas who were classified as askaris, were members of MK or Apla who had received external military training and who knew precisely how they functioned and operated and my information at that stage was not ... I want to put this in context and mention, for the record, that this is the final day of a four day hearing which started on Tuesday when the Apla high command was present and made a statement and answered questions. They, on the Wednesday we had the former SADF who were here. And yesterday the ... MR POTGIETER: In the investigative unit if an MK member or an Apla member was arrested there were photos taken of the person or his number is identified in the terrorist album and then we would visit Vlakplaas, normally at the end of the month when their teams came back from their activities in ... which I think is a very good example, from the other side of the political spectrum, if you take the Azanian People's Organisation, which had a wing APLA, and you had the ANC with Umkonto weSizwe, it doesn't mean that the rest of the members were not involved and were not committed to resistance ... MR PRINSLOO: It was the recruitment and handling of informers, as well as investigations and actions against ANC, APLA and PAC terrorists. Paragraph 59 - this is not a verbatim transcript, it reads something like the following: Clive said: "Maybe it was APLA, the Government" etc. MR BIZOS: Was there ever any talk about APLA at any stage, as the organisation that may have been responsible for Hani’s death? MR PRIOR: You see, why I ask you that, it seems out of all the APLA matters that I'm aware of and this is a very general question, your operations in that area seem to be the only operations that targeted a specific community, a specific business community unlike the other attacks which seem to ... ... Commission ("TRC") Evidence Analyst prior to the hearing, both the Applicants say they received orders from Mphahlele, a former member of APLA High Command. A the hearing, however, they admitted that this was not true. The Applicants never received any orders from Mphahlele and only ... It is clear that the Applicants were members of the PAC and/or APLA and that they acted in terms of these organisations' policies and objectives. A the relevant time APLA was still engaged in the armed struggle and regarded all whites as supporters of the Apartheid Government. Attacks of ... We also do not accept the applicants evidence that he was an APLA cadre and that the robbery was an APLA operation. The applicant had scant knowledge of the then leadership of APLA and the PAC. He did not even know who the APLA Director of operations was. understood the so-called Task Force to relate to the PAC and its armed struggle. At some stage later he started referring to Makara as a member of APLA. In his application form he says he received orders from Sabelo Pama but in his evidence-in-chief he had made no reference whatsoever to the ... ... process. However, as we have heard in a number of other matters the PAC had not yet abandoned the armed struggle. The applicant was a member of APLA and received order to attack the bus. The arms and ammunition used in the attack were supplied by APLA to the applicant and the orders emanated ... The PAC has confirmed in a letter dated 9 September 1998 that Applicant is a member of the organisation and that the incident relates to PAC /Apla operations. Yesterday for example, we listened to the APLA commanders, former APLA commanders and members of the PAC, tomorrow we will have representation from the former South African police and on Friday, former leaders of MK so that throughout the week we’ll be trying to assemble a picture which will ... |