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Black CatsExplanation After a while the applicant, Hlongwane and several other Black Cats members moved to Davel where they carried out a number of attacks on houses belonging to ANC supporters. They were doing so on the instructions of Mqobokazi after the latter was approached by Mkhonza, an IFP member and Davel ... ... with them and they said on that night we are going to shit because we are not going to sleep. They told us that they went to collect some more Black Cats on a red van. They started attacking the children at school and the confusion started and the violence spread all over. The children had ... "We had evidence that the gang was fostered by some membersof the SAP, as a surrogate akin to the "witdoeke" andBlack Cats which has caused a reign of terror in black townships". ... You had the Three Million Gang in the Free State which played a particular role which was very destabilising to organisations there. You had the Black Cats in Ermelo which even from the hearings in Nelspruit last week it was very clear you have someone saying I was paid by the police to kill ... ... has testified that he did not attack and kill Malinga out of malice, nor personal gain. His evidence that by 1993 there were still attacks by Black Cats in his immediate residential area has not been gainsaid. It is the view of the Committee that his evidence should be accepted. There is ... turmoil that was in engulfed areas and Piet Retief was an extremely volatile area, we've had applications before other Committees with regard to the Black Cats and people from the Natal Security Branches that operated in Piet Retief which is, as you know, in the northern part of Kwa-Zulu Natal. ... MR BLACK: I think what is of importance too, he does mention that although he wasn't present, and I must make it very clear to those representing these parties, and I have outside the court, he says that Msibi used to house Black Cats. And I advisedly say purported also because I think in the last session Comrade Matthews Phosa gave a resumé of all the gangs from the Black Cats to the Asignora(?) in various parts of the country and how they were linked to the regime and recruited in many instances within the prisons. DR RANDERA: In your own words and your own time tell us your understanding of what was happening in the community at that time. You have mentioned the Amakati, The Black Cats as they were called, the gangs. Where did they come from ? How did they come into existence ? Some of the applicants herein also apply for amnesty in respect of crimes committed as part of the so-called Black Cats of Ermelo. As you are aware, we represent certain individual Policemen who have in the past, falsely been implicated in this regard. ... traditional groupings, the ranks of the desperately unemployed and even criminal gangs (such as the Three Million, and later, the AmaSinyora, the Black Cats, the Toasters, to name a few), the vigilantes intervened in local politics when called upon or paid to do so. In all cases they violently ... ... ourselves into risk. At time we'll find ourselves in trouble and I remember this other incident. There were a group of young men who were called Black Cats. There was a time when it was said they are being protected by the police and they were living at the police station. ... : ERMELO
: THE "BLACK CATS"
MR NKONYANE: He was a member of the Black Cats which was directly linked to the IFP, they were working hand in hand. If one looks as a recent case, where I was involved with the Black Cats, where the ANC policy was not even to rob people, where they went and robbed people, and how did that contribute to the struggle? ERMELO
J J MABENA
BLACK CATS
ERMELO
PELELE L. SHONGWE
BLACK CATS
ERMELO
PAULOS PISTOL NKONYANE
BLACK CATS
ERMELO
SILOS NKONYANE
BLACK CATS
ERMELO
LIVINGSTONE M. LUKHELE
BLACK CATS
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