comrades

... He spent several months in solitary confinement after that. In June 1986: I was visited by a Sergeant who tried to bribe me to testify against my comrades. He came to me carrying a bottle of Klipdrift brandy. I told him I would not co-operate. He then told me I must forget about being released. ...

... back at the history of PAC – the formation of Poqo on the 11th of September 1961. If you remember the attacks at Mbashe, Paarl and Komane, those comrades of those days were members of the PAC which was converted into APLA. They were attacking white civilians during those days; even history ...

... a statement from a person whose identity will not be disclosed by the Commission as follows. Within a day or two of the conclusion of the Witdoek/Comrades violence I received a telephone call from [an official] of the Western Cape Development Board asking to see me urgently late the same ...

... Timothy, in the ANC camp known as Quatro. I come here on behalf of my family. I come here to express my feeling of betrayal by compatriots and comrades. I come here to express our disappointment and the way we feel cheated of a dear little brother, a promising young man, a brilliant young ...

... was also seen as a challenge to the patriarchal authority of some of the older men, leading to intergenerational conflict between the young comrades and conservative elders. In the process, violence was unleashed against, witnessed, and perpetrated by the young. Many young people felt ...

... empowered and were associated with some of the most heinous abuses, the situation was ripe for political conflict. 23. In some cases, where comrades and other pro-liberation movement activists w e re perceived as having died as a result of witchcraft, community organisations took steps to ...

... that her mother bought liquor at a time when the community had decided that all shebeens in Port Alfred should be closed in the early evenings. Comrades forced Nontima Matyumza and her husband to eat Omo washing powder. She died the following day. 242 The former UDF leadership admitted in ...

... of African people through the rural rehabilitation scheme” as well as being “provoked by reports of the brutal torture in Cofimvaba prison of Comrades Makwetu and Kisana”. In its submission to the Commission, the PAC claims that “a whole platoon of the SAP threw away their guns. ...

... was “forced to leave the MK camp” in Angola after “he opposed a decision of the leadership” and opposed the use of corporal punishment on comrades. A tribunal was held after which he was taken to Camp 32 on 18 May 1984. Here he said he was subjected to various forms of torture, ...

... the circumstances in which this occurred: Suspects were believed to be harbouring crucial information that could result in the death or arrest of comrades as well as the exposure of arms caches … Therefore the possible use of force was seen as a preventative measure under the circumstances. ...

... of incidents where attacks were launched against UDF people, property or homes. It is impossible for me to record the extent of these attacks. The comrades responded by attacking us with equal vigour. A state of war existed between us. I often played a command role in directing our attacks. I ...

... were particularly bad years for guerrillas operating in Transkei, featuring several hit squad killings. 22 ANC list compiled by Phyllis Naidoo, MK comrades who died in combat etc in South Africa; list prepared by MK,2 September 1996. While this list contains several inaccuracies, it has been ...

... consciousness after two weeks and I was not even able to speak. 393 Mr Lungisile Robert Cotani [EC0811/96QTN] had a similar experience: Then the comrades took me into a van that was collecting injured people all day. Whilst in that van, which was taking in more people, even dead people, I was ...

... Ms Sara Mthimunye (19) was run over by a bus whose driver had been overcome by the tear gas. Many others were injured in the mêlée. That night, comrades began burning the businesses of suspected Imbokodo members and MPs in the legislative assembly. 327 On 7 May 1986, PW Botha announced that ...

supporters to give effect to Chief Buthelezi’s strategy. According to Oliver Tambo, this was due to “the understandable antipathy of many of our comrades towards what they considered as working within the bantustan system”.8 62 Matters came to a head at a London meeting between Chief ...

living wage’, and Inkatha supporters believed him to be a supporter of a COSATU-affiliated union and referred to him as a member of the amaqabane [comrades]. At the end of the rally, Shabalala instructed Inkatha supporters to kill Mjoli who was subsequently stabbed to death in the toilets of the ...

... Joe Seremane told the Commission’s special hearings of prisons in July 1997: I come here to express the feeling of betrayal by compatriots and comrades … I want somebody to come and tell me what my younger brother actually did that he deserved to be shot like an animal being put down after ...

SAP. 17 Former members of the liberation movements who came to work for the Security Branch , providing information , identifying and tracing former comrades. ...

... standard practice to ‘persuade’ captured guerrillas to ‘turn’ and become askaris assisting Koevoet in the conflict against their former comrades. This was a practice pioneered by the Rhodesian Selous Scouts, the archetypal model for Koevoet and the unit within which most of ...

f Karoo (Beaufort West) (12 -14 August 1996). This hearing focused on community violence, such as the burning of residents who did not support the comrades, and the arrest and incarceration in 1968 of 100 men who allegedly conspired to poison the Victoria West water supply. Another case ...