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councillorsExplanation This organisation was to protect the rights of the residents. This started because it was necessary that the community should have the representatives because they were actually against the Councillors. ... and we as Michael never gave up. We knew him as part of the comrades, we showed him many reasons why he should resign. I remember that those councillors who were supposed to be elected, the people were serving on mine who were to be elected, then we called a meeting in Brandfort where we ... ... The scheme was unworkable as it plays a financial burden for services on residents and it gave rise to internal physical clashes between unpopular councillors and the UDF and local constituencies. Straight brutality and the systematic detention and banning of UDF and other leaders created the ... REV MOKWENA: It means they were fighting with the councillors or the then councillors. What was the relationship between the community Councillors and the people in Zolani in April of 1986? MR MOTHALE: What made the Councillors to attack us is that they knew that we were members of the UDF and we were against some of the things they imposed on us in the township. They wanted us to leave the township and be sent to Pudumo. well as Councillors' houses. MR GELDENHUYS: And you said that this operation was politically motivated and you said that was because of the municipal police and the councillors' association with the then government, is that correct? The students were harassed by the police from their homes and that involved their parents as well. The unrest started in Jansenville. They councillors were chased from the location and they were offered accommodation in the township, in the police ...(indistinct) and so on. ... the community’s interests. During that time the Government of - the apartheid Government had already decided and thought about the community councillors. They wanted to deploy them throughout the location, that’s where the trouble started and where the misunderstanding started, because ... Councillors for example were regarded as IFP members because they belonged to the KwaZulu Government. I did see them being burned in front of me. I did see people made to drink the soaps that they had bought from shops. I did them made to drink those sunlight liquid soaps and the UDF was ... Mama, here in your statement you have stated that Pakathi belonged to a vigilante group which was very notorious. What group was that? --- (Inaudible) ... councillors. things went well between them, but in the middle something happened. There was a misunderstanding between them and the councillors. Fifteen families at Veeplaas, were sitting there, their books were stamped. They were actually people who had been evicted from their houses., so they took ... rather too high, as well as the fact that the people didn't want you to work with the system you as the councillors how did you address the grievances that the community had? Did you feel that the grievances were impossible or they were justified or you felt that you could just continue with your ... MR NDLOVU: Yes, I was involved in the planning and the other things, the operations which were being carried out by our sub-unit. That is the attacks against councillors. But what we have learnt and discovered is that that was some kind of a way that they could fight the councillors and a kind of way that they could send a message through to the Government. MR MATHINZINI: They were people from Mxhalanga Location. They wouldn’t go the principal to tell him that they were against him. When the Councillors’ houses were burnt down, my house was also burnt down. They threw stones in my house. They said that I was on the School Committee, I was also ... ... a march where we were expressing our concern that we were no longer going to pay for services and the second issue, we were not going to buy from councillors shop, but that we were also not going to buy from shops of the friends of the councillors and that we were also going to isolate the ... stop the boycott or the go-slow. After we had fixed the problem of workers being exploited we went on, we moved further to the community, where the councillors were increasing rent, which was initially R26,00 and it was going to R28,00. And we realised that we should help the community, we ... Thank you Mr Nkumbi - I asked you firstly what was the situation in Hanover at that time. I will read to you the report from our researchers and I will tell you their report about the conflict around this place and the conflict between the UDF comrades and the leaders or the councillors. |
