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Guguletu SevenExplanation ... or something major had happened. The latter was the case, I soon discovered, so I went out to where I discovered the incident had happened, to Guguletu, outside the Dairy Belle ... ... day my husband went to work and my son hadn't returned. Before I had gone to work, my phone rang. I picked it up and this person said I am here at Guguletu, I am the police station, I would like to speak to your husband. I said that he had gone to work, he is not around. This man said to me ... MR ARENDSE: The last matter that I want to refer to is the one involving the Guguletu Police Attack at NY108. Chairperson, it is not referred to specifically as one of the incidents before you. If you look at the index on the front page, it is not one of the four incidents but it is mentioned by ... office in Langa. And from then on I was promoted and was in charge of, like a chief superintendent of township administration and housing of Langa, Guguletu, Nyanga, Crossroads and later ... MR HLONGWANE: We heard shots, some boys at Guguletu ...[intervention] ... did in the preparations of the 21st of March, what did you do before the 21st was the day prior to everything that happened. We had a meeting at Guguletu, what I did I was going up and down, trying to organise the march, that was my ... ... about Wiseman Madodomzi Lutya that he had - that he was aged 22 and that he was killed by the South African Police on the 11th of August 1976 in ... MR NTSEBEZA: When did you become involved with issues of the area that is now under consideration, in other words KTC, Nyanga, Guguletu and all these places, when did you become in...(intervention) EXAMINATION BY MR MAPOMA: Mr Meyer, is it correct that you were the occupant of the police vehicle which was shot at at NY108 Guguletu which is an incident subject to this application? MR NTSEBEZA: Ja, and did JOC always inform the S-JMC when it would embark on operations like for instance the Guguletu 7, would that have been something, if it was decided at GOS, would that be something that would then be reported to the S-JMC? So I walked. I was without shoes and I was not even aware, realising it when I was already at Guguletu that I did not have shoes. So I looked for them and I met them and I explained to them that my sister is deceased, and she has been hurt to death and she was burnt. We went to the police at ... MR NTSEBEZA: But on the 25th of March 1986 you did order a sortie into Guguletu did you not, with Captain Bester, you gave orders that a patrol, an unmarked vehicle manned by members of the South African Police and the South African Railway Police should go through Guguletu, Crossroad areas, do you ... MR DU TOIT: I cooperated with all the members of the detective branch in Guguletu, I knew all the members. It's difficult for me to make a distinction between those people. I had contact with all the people. Well apparently he was one of the children who had been shot in Guguletu. But I would like to know why it was that my son was shot. I do not know why he was shot. I asked myself this question. It is still not answered. Why did the police shoot our children? With no - for no apparent reason. ... about Lukes Solandle. They told me that I will die in the same manner that Lukes Smarts died. They told me that Lukes Smarts was from Cape Town in Guguletu. I gave testimony in Lukes Solandle's case and I met his wife and ... ... with something else which was more urgent and I suspect that I was on my way to Cape Town in connection with the spate of violence and unrest in Guguletu/Khayelitsha/Crossroads area. I think I was on my way to Cape Town and that is why I did not accompany them on this ... between polarised communities. We challenged lying official versions of events such as the Soweto uprising, the death of Steve Biko, Boipatong, the Guguletu Seven and the Uitenhage massacre. We refused to cower before Nationalist bullying. We pioneered investigative reporting in South Africa ... MR PRIOR: Maybe Mr Arendse can answer. I know there are several applications for amnesty from various APLA members regarding Guguletu and Khayelitsha and the other matters. been stolen, that a Warrant Officer Du Toit acknowledged that he exaggerated in his pocket book, Major Burger confirmed that the information book of Guguletu police station had been destroyed 14 days before he gave evidence and Sergeant Campher testified that a file existed of the radio command ... Mr Chairman, maybe before I start leading the evidence, I want to request - I understand Mr Mbane has testified, I think at least twice, once in the Guguletu matter and once I think, in Durban as well, so for that reason I'm going to request that I don't lead his whole personal background ... |
