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councillorsExplanation ... people, some agreed that we should cut down the increase by 20 cents and others said by 30 cents. We proceeded until on a Sunday where there were councillors as well as Mr Israel Dlamini, the then ... ... not like our organisation. And it was found out that the issues here were different. There was a political intention behind, there were community councillors and they were not acceptable in the townships because people would ask questions that if there is such a problem, why can't community ... MR MOTLOUNG: Mr Manana, these people that went about troubling the councillors and so on, were they saying that they're doing all these things in the name of politics? ... with them. They hacked three of the vigilantes with pangas and jungle knives. The vigilantes were killed because they sided with the Pirates and Councillors. They also actively persecuted UDF ... ... rendering Mrs Hanabe ineffective to run the affairs of the local council in Klipplaat: She had already fled Klipplaat and almost all her fellow councillors had ... MRS NOFEMELE: They were protecting the councillors. MR MANTHATA: Did the Councillors ever explain to the people why the rent increases ? thus formed by the community because the community didn't want the leadership of the Councillors who were puppets of the apartheid regime without the consent of the community. ... distinguished guests and Reverend Bongani Finca, I greet you all on behalf of the East London Junior City Council, on behalf of all the Junior City Councillors of East London, on behalf of the Junior Town Clerk, Karen Oosthuizen and on behalf of our Junior Mayor Carla ... MR VISSER: Like black councillors. DR RANDERA: So there was a rent increase, were there also local councillors in Ikhutseng that people were against? MRS MOLALOSE: No they never did. Even the councillors that TEMBISA HEARING TRC/GAUTENG "the police, the SADF, councillors and their henchmen have been seen at the scenes of petrol-bombings and other savage acts of brutality...we can no longer stand idly by while our wives, children and property are being attacked. We have no option but to defend ourselves and it is in this context ... you are honest and you were there you would not be able to tolerate such. It was an ambivalent situation - what we were trying to do is to make the councillors step down because they made their own conclusions without consulting the community. If you are a community leader you must listen to ... ... we met with other people, who had the same interests as we had. We went that way until 1989, December, with Sobile. Then we said that the city councillors were failing in the giving of services to the community. Then we wrote a letter to City Press, in January 1990. After the letter was ... ... of the kind of statements and quotes which we heard about in our information surveys. The puppets referred to are references to those black local councillors who were seen by the ANC as collaborators and collaborating with the government, for instance, the black councillors, the leaders of the ... MR RICHARD: Am I also correct in saying that in this area the traditional structures of chiefs, their councillors, senior chiefs, junior chiefs, still exists and has existed throughout your life? MR SANDI: Thank you Mr Chairperson, what I would like to know is, what was the role and the response of the community councillors in this chaos? MR HLONGWANE:: It was people like Councillors, Mayors, prominent members of Inkatha, Amakosi. ... I would like to put to you. Do you recall, since 1983 up until the period which you have mentioned, that there were feelings in the locations that councillors were not welcome and civic organisations were established where it was felt that councillors should not proceed with their work, because ... |
