Casspir

... of gunfire between SDU members and IFP hostel-dwellers. In one unusual incident, Tokoza SDU members attacked a police patrol and took control of a Casspir1 5 3 Amnesty applicant Mr Radebe [AM0200/96] describes the attack: We decided that we will shoot the police because of their acts. We shot ...

... a police Hippo backed into the fence surrounding the house moments before they were attacked. g One resident reported that he saw a green police Casspir parked next to Slovo camp as he fled his home. h A police Casspir followed the attackers as they left the township in the direction of the ...

[JB00271/ 01ERKWA] testified that the police specifically gave an order to shoot to kill: This white man who had been swearing at us got out of the Casspir from behind and took out a firearm and said: “Kill”. Before we could even respond to the two men who had come with the message, we heard ...

death of his brother tormented him…” Silika was allegedly taken by the investigation team to Crossroads at 04h00. Certain members then left the Casspir to ‘handle other tasks’. Two unit members remained with Silika, who asked to urinate outside. Silika then allegedly attempted to escape ...

... entered the township, firing tear gas. Mr Solani Gcanga [CT01508] was arrested and repeatedly assaulted and driven around the township on top of a Casspir with a sjambok around his neck. This precipitated events leading to the killing of the ‘Colesberg Four’. 149 Youths marched on the ...

... open fire. From this point on, persistent volleys of shots and grenades took place between the security forces and Fransch throughout the night. A Casspir was used as a breaching device to bulldoze a wall shielding the house. According to police records, Major Brazelle attempted to negotiate ...

an estimated 20 000 residents, the area’s chiefs and two representatives of the homeland cabinet (who were advised to travel to the meeting in a Casspir armoured personnel carrier). At the meeting, three demands were presented to the government representatives: (1) the disbanding of Imbokodo; ...

... involved in the attack: Then I tried to open a window to see what is happening outside, then I saw some men who were carrying guns. They were in a Casspir. They were shooting relentlessly. THE COMMISSION FINDS THAT THE TOASTER GANG WAS FORMED BY FORMER ‘COMRADES’ EXPELLED FROM THE ANC IN ...

... to express his sympathy to the bereaved families. The depth of anger in the township, however, had been seriously underestimated. As police Casspirs started to leave two hours after the president’s departure, youths threw a branch in front of the last Casspir, and when policemen got out ...

... fire on a group of about 300 ANC supporters at Grabouw. A police spokesperson said the man had been shot because he had thrown a half-brick at a Casspir after the crowd was ordered to disperse. This was rejected by the ANC’s Grabouw branch, which insisted that there had been no order to ...

... them through the hole of the toilet’s door. 708 Philemon Malinga alleged that the police came to fetch the attackers. He heard the sound of a Casspir and a voice asking in Afrikaans “Have you finished?” 709 Because of the alleged link between the police and the Black Cat gang, the ...

... Prisoners of war were shot at point blank range and buried once enough information had been extracted from them. Bodies were often tied to Casspirs19 , and the men would drive around with them for a week with their skin being ripped off. This was done to intimidate prisoners, and to ...

... by an estimated 20 000 residents, the area's chiefs and two representatives of the homeland cabinet (who were advised to travel to the meeting in a Casspir). At the meeting, three demands were presented to the government representatives: the disbanding of Imbokodo; the cancellation of ...

... of a link is the fact that Kheswa is known to have watched the proceedings of the funeral of ANC leader Ernest Sotsu’s family from a police Casspir, despite the fact that he was widely believed to be the perpetrator of their killing. Kheswa eventually died under uncertain circumstances ...

... against the state. In one such protest action, AWB members crashed through the doors of the World Trade Centre at Kempton Park, Johannesburg, in a Casspir (armoured personnel carrier). This was a warning sign that the AWB and some of its militant allies were not fully under the control of the ...

... on 2 January 1986. Comrades accused them of bewitching Fudwana (Fudukile) Dikani, Nofikile’s son, who was killed in October 1985 when an SADF casspir drove over his vehicle. According to evidence given to the Commission, Fudwana used to transport injured victims of police shootings to ...

... or so-called ‘collaborators’, creating an impression that the deaths of MK operatives were possibly revenge killings. 379 The use of the Casspir or armoured vehicle as a breaching device, a common Koevoet practice, indicates scant regard for the principle of minimum force. Its lethal ...

... behind, thrown out of, driven over, put in a boot of car, specifying type of vehicle involved (for example, car, train, truck, van, bakkie, Hippo, Casspir). Not a car bomb (see bombing) ...

... political commissar. We picked up his spoor and chased him for two days ... this was typical of the style of contacts that I was involved in. Five Casspirs, fifty men chasing one or two people running on foot. We finally did catch him, hiding in a kraal. The unit commander … lined up a bunch ...

... of being a taxi driver. He was instructed to stop the minibus at a designated spot, one side of which was fenced while the other was open. An army Casspir was parked in the road to prevent the occupants of the taxi from escaping; a group of policemen hid in the river bed, about thirty metres ...