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bakkieExplanation An ANC supporter who was severely beaten by members of the Ciskei Police and CDF while in a police van in December 1991, and in a bakkie at the headman’s rondavel on 8 September 1992, at Middledrift, Ciskei, during political conflict over the reimposition of the headman system in the homeland. Was shot dead by members of the SAP while travelling on the back of a bakkie in Alexandra, Johannesburg, on 17 February 1986. Police entered the township to restore order during a consumer boycott. An employee of the Manganese Metal Company in Randfontein who was in a bakkie with other passengers when it was ambushed near the company premises on 6 May 1990 during conflict between IFP-supporting hostel-dwellers and ANC-supporting residents. |