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Cradock FourExplanation At one stage I was in Cradock. People in Cradock will tell you this. At the ring of a telephone we would be there as reporters to report whatever was going on. I was their pillar as a reporter. I would report everything. I hope I have answered your question. He further testified that they indeed followed a day or two later and asked Major Winter, the Station Commander at Cradock, to show them the way to Post Chalmers. This was denied by Winter and the Applicant conceded that he had made a mistake and that it was an ordinary member of the Police, ... MS CRICHTON: Before you start I would like to just clarify one point that is incorrect, I think in the statement that have in front of me. Did this incident that you are going to talk about happen in Port Elizabeth or in Cradock? MR ERASMUS: My area of authority was the headquarters in Port Elizabeth, then there was a branch office in Uitenhage, one in Grahamstown, one in Fort Beaufort and one in Cradock. REV XUNDU: Can we talk about July 1985, about an incident in Cradock, an incident that lead to your arrest. MR BOOYENS: And it included areas such as Queenstown, Cradock, everywhere? and thus to build unity within their community. Similar local of organisation in places like Attridgeville, Fort Beaufort, parts of Port Elizabeth, Cradock, Queenstown and Kagiso form a basis for a people's system of law and order. Our people's courts are not meant to punish people but rather to ... MR MPHITHI: He is from Cradock. He is a policeman. He was one of the people assaulting me. I did not know why they were assaulting me, because I knew nothing. I only looked for livestock. I did not know what they wanted from me. ... members of the ANC as well were in fact eliminated. And there are a number of instances which are fairly well known, the killings of the Cradock Four in the Eastern Cape, the disappearance of the Pebco Three, the killings of the Ribeiro's and so on and so forth, the assassination on ... That evening the askaris and the PE Group travelled together to Cradock where the interrogation was going to take place. It was only the following day that he and Beeslaar went to the Post Chalmers where he learnt from on of the PE Group members that a lot of information had been obtained ... ... a holiday and it was cold, because it was Winter. He told me about what happened. I tried to be strong, because I knew that my boyfriend was from Cradock so his family members were in Cradock. I tried to be strong. I went back home. I took my diary, trying to check for the telephone numbers. ... Jacklyn Cock refers to the rapes in the war in South Africa. She cites a sworn statement made by a 70 year old woman in Cradock. The woman describes how she was walking in the street and some white soldiers stopped her and lifted her into the military vehicle. After a short distance the vehicle ... of NationalUnity and Reconciliation Act be given to Mr Sakkie van Zyl, MrDion Nieuwoudt, Mr Gert Besselaar and Mr Winter who was stationcommander at Cradock in 1985, these being the persons referredto in the evidence yesterday of Colonel Venter, that they arecalled upon to appear before the ... 2. Amnesty is GRANTED to all the applicants in respect of the murder of Mtimkhulu and Madaka on or about 14 April 1982 at Post Chalmers in the district of Cradock, and for offences and delicts directly linked to what happened on that specific date. On the 19th of July, a Friday at about 20 past nine I was preparing myself to go to the funeral of Mr Goniwe here in Cradock, my shop had two outside glass panels, and even in my house there's a glass division and if the shop is closed they usually use a curtain. The children were still washing ... MR SANDI: Was he a policeman here in Cradock? Thank you Chairperson and members of the Commission. The last time I visited De Aar - was on the 18th of June 1985. I was in the company of my late husband Brian Bishop and our friend the late Molly Blackburn and Mr Monwabese Macahula who was then President of the Cradock Resident Association. MR MAMASELA: Ja. There was a board indicating that it - Old Cradock Police or whatever, police office of police station yes, nearby. MR DU PLESSIS: No, that’s not what I said, I said that upon my arrival in Cradock they did not appear to me to have been assaulted. MR HATTINGH: And the Cradock 4, Goniwe and the others, were special investigative teams appointed to investigate that matter? |
