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Esikhawini hit squadExplanation ... forms an important chapter of this Commission's inquiry into alleged hit squad activities performed by ex-Caprivian trainees in the district of Esikhawini during the period 1991 until 1993. ... MR STUART: Did this group then form the basis for the eSikhawini hit squad? MR MBAMBO: I did these crimes because I had been given instruction to do them by the hit squad members at eSikhawini. And some of the weapons, like hand grenades, I also still remember that there was something at Esikhawini at the time because there was Mr Khumalo who was in assistance of Inkatha. He too sent me to fetch some of the hand grenades at the camp. And some arms came with Joyful Mthethwa. I am not ... and we would seek and discuss several things with him. He was a police reservist at the KwaZulu Police and he was also Chairman of the IFP Youth at eSikhawini and he was very close to Mrs Mbuaze and Bebe Biela and Brigadier Umzumela because Brigadier Umzumela was his ... ... this area in the eighties, the North Coast region was very different to what it is today. With a few exceptions, namely Mandini and to some extent Esikhawini where there was trade union activity, there was very little political polarisation. There was peace. People who were perhaps inclined to ... 7.26 The murder and attempted murder of an unknown number of people in the Makhandleleni area of Section H2 and near the Railway Hostel, Esikhawini during or about July 1992, during attacks which were carried out to influence bail applications of hit squad members; ... of this hit squad and how the structure actually worked. As I understand it, there was a - you were in fact the person who were in charge of the eSikhawini hit squad and there were certain people that you gave orders to and those persons are amongst others, Mr Mbambo, Mr Hlongwane, Mr ... MR WILLS:: Now, in these areas, you weren't operating with the other members of the eSikhawini hit-squad. Is that correct? to say how Brian Gin Mkhize, one of your co-applicants in this matter, approached you in order to become a member of the hit squad. Now, I know the Esikhawini hit squad. I know that you've told this evidence before. I'd like you to briefly go over it so that the members of the public are put in ... ... IFP ties, coupled with a strong anti-ANC stance were quite evident. It was clearly stated that to transfer Brigadier Mzimela from the district of Esikhawini would be, politically speaking, a severe setback for the IFP and would be regarded as a victory for the ANC, who had for some time been ... Just briefly, you indicated that you got your firearm which you indicated was a 9 mm, my instructions are it was a 9 mm parabellum from the collection of firearms that the eSikhawini hit squad had, do you recall that? |
