End Conscription Campaign (ECC)

The Committee on South African War Resistance and the End Conscription Campaign 20 Mr Roger Field provided a brief input on the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAW), an organisation of exiled conscientious objectors, formed in the aftermath of South Africa’s invasion of Angola in ...

... Amnesty applicant Mr Nelson Shabangu claims that he and other Riot Unit members were responsible for her death. 57 H Osborne, The Richmond War. End Conscription Campaign, 20 July 1991. 58 Mbongwa and others were killed on 20 March 1994 in Ndaleni [CR85 / 03 / 94]. 59 The attack on Mr Peter ...

... action, designed to forestall the invasion of SWA/Namibia by 800-1000 SWAPO guerrillas. Namibian Multi-Party Conference is launched. The End Conscription Campaign (ECC) is launched by whites opposed to conscription. ...

... 46 Some white youth joined the struggle against apartheid through membership of and participation in resistance organisations such as the End Conscription Campaign (ECC)9, student movements, such as the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) or by joining political ...

... 29 Dr Ivan Toms said: I started this clinic in Crossroads from nothing. We built it with builder’s rubble ... and some of my friends from the End Conscription Campaign started to help us. There, experientially, one saw what apartheid was all about. So my resistance to apartheid and to the ...

... 44 The PAC claimed that its 21 March 1960 campaign was only a part of an “unfolding programme of action” which would lead to total independence by 1963. With PAC leaders in prison, the task fell on the regional echelons. The wide media coverage of the anti-pass campaign and the ...

... together with some of the obstacles to restitution. Dr Laurie Nathan, director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution and former Chairperson of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), said at a special hearing on compulsory military service in Cape Town: I want to end by addressing the question of ...

... conscientious objectors. The United Congregational Church spoke of its “constant support” for objectors, the principle of objection and the End Conscription Campaign. It also refused to be co-opted onto the SADF-sponsored Board for Religious Objection. The Presbyterian Church, which had ...

... operations in Namibia, aims at reducing SWAPO majority support. SWAPO wins national elections in Namibia in November and Namibia becomes independent in March the following year. In the Motherwell bombing, Port Elizabeth, in December, three police officers and an informer are killed ...

activities of Region Six.9 3 These involved the attempted killing of UDF Western Cape Chair Abdullah Omar, the planned killing of Mr Gavin Evans, an End Conscription Campaign member, the bombing of the Early Learning Centre in Athlone Cape Town on 31 August 1989, and the harassment of Archbishop ...

... such as the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) offered basic legal advice and support to ordinary people. The End Conscription Campaign (ECC) monitored developments in military conscription and offered advice to conscripts. Some organisations were set up to ...

... in the name of the Wit Wolwe (‘White Wolves’) in Pretoria and Verwoerdburg. These actions targeted white activists such as members of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) and the National Union of South African Students (Nusas) affiliates and involved the creation and distribution of ...

... struggle which resulted in few human rights violations inside South Africa. It was plagued with internal divisions and leadership conflicts which rendered it ineffective and led to the commission of gross human rights violations against its own members in exile. Poqo 182 The establishment of ...

... 47. The single-sex hostels, moreover, eroded family structures. Women who had accompanied their male partners and husbands to the compounds were ‘endorsed out’ or sent back to the homelands. A corollary to the slave-like conditions of work on the mines, women were left to rear children and ...

... techniques by the SAP and deployed in Namibia. Bophuthatswana, Ciskei and Lebowa are granted self-government status. Conscription is extended from nine to twelve months, followed by a nineteen-day annual call-up for five years. The Black People’s Convention (BPC) is launched as an ...

APLA in the later period. FINDING ON POQO 5. The Commission stated in its Final Report that: While the Commission takes note of the explanation tendered by the PAC that its activities in the early 1990’s need to be understood in the context of the ‘land wars of the time’, it nevertheless ...

... force in 1986. i The 1960 Pondoland Rebellion, in response to the imposition of the Bantu Authorities Act which prepared the way for the independent homelands. j The 1992 Bisho Massacre, in response to an ANC national campaign for free political activity in the homelands. Special ...

... acted on orders handed down to me in terms of the law of the country. I prefer not to do so but rather, without sounding sentimental or trite, to tender my sincere personal apologies to all fellow South Africans who have suffered directly or indirectly from the actions of the SADF during the ...