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Bethal 18Explanation My uncle got me a job at the SA Breweries. The policemen harrassed me from thereon. They wanted me to go to Botswana so that I could be a spy for them. I told one gentleman by the name of Zara Anthony who were the counsellors about this harrassment. The Bethal case resumed again. MR MAPOMA: Yes, Chairperson. In this matter the victims have been notified. They stay in Bethal, the Dludlu family, but we have not received any response from them as to their interest in the matter and they are also not attending. They are not here to attend the hearing. ... on, which would be of assistance to the panel in finalising that particular matter. Now, during the course of that hearing which relates to the Bethal area, there was testimony about a conflict which involved members of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress in that ... ... coincidentally Mathew Simelane was here just before me, he is my uncle. He told me, I am told by my uncle Mathew Simelane of 17 Zinoni Township, Bethal that before Sasol at Secunda was sabotaged by Barney and his six Comrades and Barney was in command of that operation. ... ... your programme, we had planned it as such to-day but we were waiting on Mr Mark Shinners who’s with us now. In 1977 there was a very big trial in Bethal of eighteen people who were members or thought to be members of the PAC, Pan African Congress, South Africa. Mr Mark Shinners was one of the ... MR BUTHELEZI: As I said that I knew him for quite a short time since I was stationed in Bethal, and when I got there there wasn't any activities regarding politics in the area, so I would not have been aware of his activities politically. MR LAMEY: You also say that this person was also detained then later at the Bethal prison? MR PIENAAR: He was taken to the doctor in Piet Retief, and afterwards he was transferred to the Bethal prison where he also received medical attention. ... members as well. He immediately received medical treatment for his injuries at Piet Retief and then arrangements were made to transfer him to Bethal, due to the fact that the Section 29 detention cells in Piet Retief at that stage, were full, due to the detention of Mr Maseko and Dladla. ... allowed to go out to the yard to exercise. In January I went for this long drive and then I came, when I came to I was in a prison, I was told it is Bethal. I was given a cell where SOWETO HEARING ... ... on 25 February 1994 in the Eastern Circuit of the then Supreme Court of the murder of Vusimuzi Ephraim Dludlu on 17 October 1992 at Emzinoni, Bethal in the then Transvaal. He was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. He applies for amnesty in this hearing in respect of this conviction and ... CHAIRMAN: Not Delmas? Was it not in Bethal? MR PIENAAR: Mr Theron called me on the 8th while I was busy with a Circuit Court at Bethal and I went to Piet Retief where I received the information. ... in Pumla. They went to the extension, they went to the house of the leader of the Black Cats. We heard that there were people, comrades from Bethal, Davel and Ermelo. When they arrived there, Lucky and Sepo, my sons, they trying to retrieve, they were taken. They started assaulting them. ... ... the one who is present here with me to-day was also present. I was first from another place where I was told that my son had been taken to the Bethal Hospital. They fetched me on a Monday and I went straight to the Bethal hospital. When I got to Bethal Hospital they told me that he had ... ... but when I came to deal with him later at Ermelo, I also referred him to a Physician for medical treatment and as far as I can recall, in the Bethal prison, he also received ongoing medical ... I'll remember later. They came to Mkhonza's place. At the time before I was arrested, when entering Davel, you're coming from Ermelo going towards Bethal, you turn along the streets which enters the place and the first house it's at the corner, it's the Mkhonza house, these men started at ... ... in this matter. Mr Pienaar, with regard to the first incident, is it correct that you were involved in a trial in the Circuit Court in Bethal, when Mr Theron, a co-applicant, who was then handling an informer of yours, informed you regarding certain ... Mr Soloman Maseko, Barberton, we were informed of his death by prisoner Perry Moshokwe, prisoner number 37/6475 who was then transferred from Barberton to Bethal in September 1991. Apart from the initial formal respond, no further information has been forwarded by the authorities. MR SHONGWE: When I arrived in court, I was granted bail and thereafter I went for the trail in Bethal and the Judge said there wasn't enough evidence, I should go home. I also attended a trial for the Malele case, I was granted a bail and it was also indicated that there wasn't enough evidence to ... |
