black spot

CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR BLACK: Thank you, Chairperson. Mr Erwee, the evidence so far has been, as I gather and I understand it, that that particular spot where the shooting took place, was chosen because it was an isolated place and one anticipated that there may - there was a real possibility, ...

... was one calculated to bring him into contact with the security forces or the authorities in some form or another. These were the stories about black spot removals like Morsgat and Lime Hill, stories about malnutrition, such as which appeared in Kuruman and caused two British doctors to flee ...

... built up their community, and also gave refuge to many evicted farm workers, who became tenants on the land. The community was identified as a "black spot" by the government and threatened with forced removal. This was strongly resisted by the entire community. Its leader Saul Mkhize was shot ...

MS PATEL: If one accepts that there was really no need for the black members involved, then surely it raises questions about the plans to keep them waiting at some distant spot, about driving around with them in the manner in which Mr Van Zyl chose to drive around with them and the entire manner in ...

MR MASANGO: There was one person there who saw me around, a black person, and I did tell him to tell his friends there, his other black friends to move away from that spot.

... reform and transformation but it is something that I must emphasise that this transformation of the late '80's never envisioned as prime objective black majortorianism and rule. It was aimed at really reinforcing the period and perpetuating white force and rule. It was a period as with all ...

MS PATEL: But certainly you will concede Mr Taylor, that the three black persons who were present during this operation were not waiting at the police station for you to come and collect them, that they were still waiting at some spot where they could have been spotted by anyone. And that would ...

... nature of land ownership in Natal, much land remaining or changing into the hands of Africans and Indians, the State's determination to eradicate black spots had devastating effect on very large numbers of communities in the region. Attempts to rebuild the women's movement in the mid-70s under ...

... when the list was presented to us, we attached our names. We left all the way to Tsakane. We entered Tsakane through a road, that road is called Black Road, I don't know for what reason, maybe it is because it does not have lights. We went through that particular road, the Black Road, and ...

ADV GCABASHE : And you had said in your evidence previously that one of the black members had this bright idea, so how could Mr De Kock have discussed the abduction previously with Kleynhans if the idea came from the people who were on the spot at the time, just help me there?

... of about 20 people ahead of us, 20 heads in the darkness ahead of us. It was starting to get light, but it was still quite dark. The group of black men ahead of us were just a couple of metres away from us. We saw that they were on their knees, they were in a kneeling position. The late ...

had little farms that they grew up those farms very well. At the height of the last regime this land was to be taken away from them because it was a black spot, and they fought and they fought at law, and they couldn't get through. One day there was a meeting in Natal at that place, Nzondalelo, of ...

CHAIRPERSON: That is that black, that black spot?

MR MOMBERG: Yes. In the meanwhile I drove along that road just by chance and there at that spot where we were, that was about right in the middle of the old gravel road that's between Warmbaths and the black township.

... not a political thing, it was to be part of a family. And they were making these little structures of branches that they cut from the forests with black plastic over them. As we all know September is the Cape Town winter so it was raining a lot, and for three weeks day in and day out the ...

The next plan was the party at my house. They mentioned marked Black Label beers and sleeping pills, but I can't remember if the beers were supplied with the other unmarked ones, I only remember the beers were supplied. The afternoon of the raid, Teddy brought a message that Leon and other ...

6. The killing of Saul Mkhize in Driefontein, as part of the resistance to forced removal of this "black spot." Mr. Mkhize was killed because of his leadership role in the resistance to the forced removal. In other words, it was his advocacy for the right to access to adequate housing and ...

Swart in the latter's vehicle and they followed another vehicle driven by Nortje.  They drove to a spot on a dirt road where they met two of their black Vlakplaas colleagues.  The latter handed a black male who was being held in the boot of their vehicle over to Gevers and his group.  The ...

... spirit of their loved one was taken, they can be in a position to take care of the necessary traditional requirements that must be taken care of as black people in claiming that spirit and in ultimately closing a page with regard to this incident. I am reliably told that Mr Goosen and I hope Mr ...

... such a common known Comrade." I had a baby then, and I had the baby on my back. I went outside. As he was refusing to open the door the very two black police went to call another white police, and told the police that - the white police that he is refusing to open the door, and the white ...