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Caprivi traineesExplanation ... re amnesty hearing, 6 to 20 April, IFP hit squad. Kindly note the following: (1) the applicants in this matter were members of the so-called Caprivi trainees, this group was thoroughly investigated during 1992 to 1993 by the Goldstone Commission when certain allegations were made inter ... ... Council conduct an investigation into the establishment of a third force, which by strange reasoning he eventually received in the form of the Caprivi trainees. Then secondly, Mr Chairperson, he adopts the attack that the doctrine of counter-revolutionary warfare, which our client ... ... in any way in yesterday's testimony. He was implicated in certain respects about functions which took place when the trainees returned from Caprivi, so there were certain aspects in which he was mentioned and in that sense ... 2.4 Caprivi Trainees were the backbone of the operations. Offensive unit member, Constable Gcina Mkhize, headed up the squad. Zweli Dlamini was a member of the squad and was involved in numerous hits. Constable Paulos Ndlovu was involved in the attack on Mthimkhulu. Thomas Buthelezi supplied ... ... I had better repeat that. I want to put something to you that strikes me as strange. We were given to understand during these hearings that the Caprivi trainees went to be trained and that at least a part of them were trained as an offensive group and that having a special meaning, namely to ... MR VISSER: One four. Which was far in a way the largest group of the Caprivi trainees. Would you agree with that figure? --- I do agree that we're the biggest group among the other groups and I said I estimated it to be eighty, not exactly eighty. ... Thank you Mr Chairperson. The position taken by Mr Luthuli has been one where he accepts moral responsibility for all the activities that the Caprivi trainees were involved in, even where he didn’t know what those activities were, or may not have given orders in relation to them. But ... Right. Now the war wasn't waged just by 200 Caprivi trainees. A vast number of people took part in that war ... [break in recording] Do you know any members of the Caprivi trainees group that received such cards? --- No. MS MOODLEY: Now out of all the people at Caprivi who were busy with training, what was so special about Sgt Cloete, why is he accompanying Dr Roos and Dr Myburgh and he is coming back to South Africa together with the trainees? You're not just an ordinary foot soldier and I think it's very ... Finally, the involvement of the Security Force members involved with the so-called Caprivi trainees and their political leaders, once the group returned to KwaZulu/Natal, will also be canvassed. with taking out selected pieces of the record in support of the contention that what Mr Cloete said at the trial was that he was only asked to train Caprivi trainees out in South West and all he did was to bring them back and then train them again before they went out on their operations. ... for Operation Marion were in place, and the first group of trainees to be given training in offensive, "hit squad" tactics were secretly sent to the Caprivi strip later that year, with the regional AEC affiliate, Creed Consultants, in charge of co-ordinating this training. ... MR HLOPE: In 1987 Mr Djamile told me to not disappear at his yard and he also told me that there were boys who were coming to his house. I found Dalikolo Letule who was one of the trainees from Caprivi and Vusi Kumalo, Velamkunu and another three people whom I didn’t know their names. MR STEWART: Now Mr Khumalo, you explain in your application how you came to obtain a normal job for a period but then at some point you returned to Ulundi because there'd been a publication about Caprivi trainees. Just explain that to us, why did that mean that you must now return to Ulundi? PINETOWN MAGISTRATE'S COURT
CAPRIVI TRAINEES - ARGUMENT
MR MOGADE: Mr Mkhize, now to your knowledge which higher authorities did Mr Luthuli report to or receive any instructions from in directing the Caprivi trainees around the province? ... amnesty a few weeks a few weeks ago and he was granted amnesty for activities involving his training or his part in the training of the so-called Caprivi trainees, 200 members of Inkatha who were trained in the Caprivi strip in 1986 by members of the Defence Force, including himself, Colonel ... ... identification of the people at the site. But the Judge confirmed that the people who carried out the Kwamakutha killings of the 13 people were Caprivi trainees. Now in the light of this, in the light of that extract from the message from Admiral Putte to Minister Malan, how are we to ... Similarly individuals in the IFP may have done so. Those put in leading positions, whether they were Caprivi trainees etc, if they understood it the way they have been giving evidence before the Commission in certain court cases, that the ANC, the UDF, Cosatu were legitimate targets, then what ... |