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hostelsExplanation ... on the violence which were available to the public. We also published a number of specialised reports on the violence. These included the role of hostels in the violence, the role of the South African Police service, as well as an indepth look at train violence. We also published a document ... MR MADUNA: The reason was the community of Katlehong had already taken a decision that they didn’t want hostels any more. They wanted the hostels to be demolished or to be removed in the townships. Therefore we wanted to scare them to make sure that they leave the hostels, because the people who ... ... just put the following on record regarding this specific incident. I'm talking about now the incident of the so-called Dube and Umzimhlope Hostels. Now in this incident no information whatsoever about the incident itself could be obtained, neither from the next of kin of Mr Lingene, or ... It is well known that in 1990 the Zulu's attacked the Xhosa's, the Zulu speaking people attacked the Xhosa speaking people. The Xhosa speaking people were also staying in the hostels and they were attacked and some of them ran away. ... there is a funeral they will go to that funeral and when they come back they will leave dead bodies on their way back to their stronghold, their hostels I ... MS VAN DER WESTHUIZEN: Do you know the hostels that were in the Penduka Section or close to Penduka Section, do you know where they are? In 1993 the SDU's were informed that there were men coming to Thokoza from KwaZulu Natal. These men had been told by people who lived at the hostels, some of them relatives, that there were jobs for them in the Germiston area. The SDU's were told to be on the look-out for these people, as the ... ... conditions of employment in agriculture. One of those conditions of employment in agriculture has been housing. We are coming from a history of hostels if a - which we would not be ashamed to admit that if you go back in the early '60's, the early '70's, the conditions were not the conditions ... MR MOTLOKWA: Yes, IFP was now attacking everybody as long as you resided in Katlehong because Chairman, members of the IFP were not residing in the township because they were driven to the hostels. My picture is not very beautiful but I'm trying to show that this triangle we will refer to as Thokoza and on the other side, upper, there will be the three hostels, the first three hostels, Mshayazafe, Madala and Kutuza hostels. ... the violence on the trains and looking for Inkatha, but what we had told ourselves was that once we have arms, we would go straight away to the hostels of the Inkatha members and attack them, because we knew that they were armed with firearms like ... MR SELAHLE: The people from the hostels, in most cases, would come and fight the people in the township. We felt that it was necessary to fight back. The people we were hoping would assist us, did not assist us. "You know, in Alexander, at the Hostels. People are throwing stones to the vehicles. They are shooting, shooting at the policemen who have got big chaos in town. I wonder, can you make contact with the people at the Hostels, man, to tell them to discipline and come into town? Either ... ... would provide the best killers that our society has ever known? The most ruthless kind of killers came out of the recruitment of young men out of hostels throughout the country, not just the East Rand. I think we are going to miss out on a lot of the essence of finding out what made the system ... MR PADI: And that you would sell these cars to various people, both in the hostels and in the locations? ... you by Mr Justice Nugent. And you explain the Zulu tradition and Zulu culture and how you used to be very proud of that. And how you used to go to hostels with Zulus. And then you ... ... IFP hostel on that side, because we were told that they essentially were all around Tokoza, so Mazibugu area, which is the nearest IFP hostel, hostels 1 and ... Of the area and could you tell us from looking at these photographs whether these are the Dairy Belle hostels. MR MAPOMA: Mr Motlopo said during the 1993 December, it was a stage where the IFP were in the hostels and in the townships, the IFP was not there? What do you say on that, about Mr Buthelezi? Being aligned with the IFP? MR PADI: Mr Phama, during the attack of the hostels, what kind of ammunition or what did you have for your arms? |
