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KwaZulu Police (KZP)Explanation ... Police units implicated were the old Vlakplaas units C10, the East Rand Murder and Robbery Squad and the Durban Security Branch as well as the KwaZulu police. The report is based on information received from a police officer only identified as Q. It is alleged that the three generals and a ... ... hearings held in Empangeni (4 to 6 November 1996) from where we hear victims? testimonies of the violent clashes between IFP and ANC supporters in KwaZulu-Natal. This segment includes evidence on the assassination of Dr Henry Luthuli ? implicating police complicity ? and the assassination ... ... the Amnesty Committee this week (East London, 29 to 30 July). The following segment focuses on the still unsolved 27 October 1992 assassination of KwaZulu-Natal activist, Reggie Hadebe. We are given some background to the December 1988 Trust Feed massacre, when police opened fire on people ... Seven day war, Edendale valley, Kwazulu-Natal midlands. Police complicity South Africa watched in anger and in shame as the dead bodies of yet more security police victims were exhumed from secret graves in KwaZulu-Natal the last few days. The families have known for a long time that the police had killed the women and men in the graves. But this is what the truth and ... ... ‘Wie kan sê,’ but you’ll find of course that some farms are both interrogation farms and they’re real farms, like in the instances here in KwaZulu-Natal. We find that one of them apparently belonged to the KwaZulu-Natal government, and there’s a lease agreement that we have unearthed. ... ... incident, steak bar, that is the place where a limpet mine went off; I’m going to apply for amnesty for an attack on a swimming pool somewhere in KwaZulu-Natal. I am even going to apply for amnesty on incidents including robberies. Robberies evokes negative feelings, but as a matter of fact ... At the last amnesty hearing in Durban a policeman who was also an IFP supporter applied for amnesty. Hendrik Steyn is serving an 18 year sentence for his involvement in the murders of two ANC members who were also members of a gang. The incident happened on the 14th of August 1992 at KwaMbunambi ... ... treason trial. He was acquitted. Prof Sibankulu disappeared on November 11, 1992. That evening he was shot at and chased by what was believed to be policemen. His burnt out car with his hacked up half burnt up body was found the next day. ... gross human rights violations to be granted amnesty by the Truth Commission. Amnesty is our focus later on in this programme. Tonight we take you to KwaZulu-Natal where the Truth Commission and the Supreme Court concentrated on the KwaMakhutha massacre of 1987. But first, the Truth Commission ... The execution style killing of Claire suggests a more sinister motive than someone simply wanting to steal her vehicle. // We, Claire’s family strongly believe that this was a political killing. Amnesty International has made a major campaign based on the same belief and the whole style of the ... They argued that as riot policemen in KwaZulu-Natal they had to assist the IFP. They said the police was openly involved in IFP gun running and third force activities. // There were weekly meetings and discussions between Inkatha leaders and high ranking officers of the unrest squad. And that is ... From the Eastern Cape to KwaZulu-Natal. The Umlazi Cinema used to be a lot more than a bioscope. Here the community had school concerts, community conferences, meetings, vigils and memorial services. It was during a memorial service for assassinated human rights lawyer, Victoria Mxenge that Inkatha ... The Caprivi group hearings continue tomorrow and we will again have a full report the week after next, but we stay in KwaZulu-Natal for our next report. During the past 18 months the families of missing anti-apartheid activists have urged the Truth Commission to uncover the truth about the ... ... my political opponents, especially Zazi Khuzwayo in that he was against me, because he felt I was his political opponent and he actually said at a police station, at the KwaThabela police station that he would allow the comrades, he would let the comrades loose and I might not live on the next ... Frans Stefanus Erasmus and William Basil Harrington were 18 when they joined the police. After their basic training they were posted to war torn KwaZulu-Natal. Here they worked in a riot unit with another young policeman, special constable Nhlanhla Philemon Mdlala. Four years later these three ... ... fits the description of the people who disappeared. I was at the burial site. I was in possession of one of the photographs that were taken by the police in 1981 and I think it is the photograph of the brother of Tokyo Sexwale. The photograph of the body that was taken by the police in ‘81 ... And then there are the people sometimes only vaguely associated with the ANC who were killed by the IFP. Often the KwaZulu police were suspected of being involved in these killings or involved by closing their ears and their eyes to people’s cries for help. Student protests against apartheid and against the KwaZulu homeland dominated the Durban township of KwaMashu in the 1980s. Police were hunting for what they called ‘agitators,’ but quiet even studious young men who went to church did not fit the general perception of blood thirsty terrorists. ... ... down. But then in the evening of the 29th at about half past nine there was an attack on this side here, Ntshongozima. We came out here with the police; we went around these huts which are just over the hill here, four homesteads that were burning. And we eventually found the two women who had ... |
