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Municipal PoliceExplanation During the same period, in November 1985, Minister of Constitutional Development Chris Heunis announced that at least five thousand municipal police, also known as "kitskonstabels" (instant constables) would be trained over the next six months. Most were deployed to bolster unpopular community ... ... to the Committee the financial and legal technical problems around the creation of such a force. At the same time he said that the foundation of Municipal Police and the extension of the South African Police Riot Unit, absolved the creation of a third force. The Committee accepted the ... MR BLACK: Okay. You allege here that Ngwenya and Zwane enjoyed the support of the IFP, the municipal authorities and were protected and armed by certain elements of the South African Police? People responsible for his death: they were white Security Police, specifically the Supervisor, Maj L van den Berg and Sgt AH Engelbrecht, Sgt J Marais and Sgt Stander. There were also SAP policemen as well as the black Municipal Police. houses were being renovated. The Comrades gave me a position in that project. As we were working there, there were ladies who had affairs with the municipal police. They were taken by other Comrades. I was not there at that time. I just saw two police vans and a combi and two ladies came out ... MR GELDENHUYS: And you said that this operation was politically motivated and you said that was because of the municipal police and the councillors' association with the then government, is that correct? We got there at a time where there was tension and at the time where I say, in 1987 my house was burnt. Whereas on the other side, the Government was establishing Councillors and also Council police in the form of municipal police. The final incident involved a visit to a police station, known as the Langa Police Station. A Municipal policeman was standing at the gate and they remained in the vicinity for some time as the policeman was chatting to a friend of his and they did not want to be involved with two people at the ... ... you. The first one when you said that the police were constantly coming to the house looking for your brother, were they SAP police or were they Municipal Police, were they the White and Coloured police that you were talking about later on in your testimony? May I have a translation ... ... the beest to be slaughtered. When we were there, we came late, at about nine o'clock in the evening. When we arrived next to the location, at the municipal offices you could see so many police vans, from Stilfontein and from many places. They called it Mellow-Yellow. There are so many ... The Applicant states that whilst he was moving around in search of a suitable target he observed that the Katlehong Municipal Police could be such a target and he decided to monitor the place. The reconnaissance took him about two (2) weeks before he could carry out the attack. He had already had ... Let us start about Mr Xolile Dosini, was this Xolile Dosini a Municipal Police? They took me to the municipal police at Lebokeng. That is where I was tortured. On my head I was butted with those plastic batons. They then took me to Makwassie police station. I was expecting them maybe to charge me on something. Instead, they interrogated me. They asked me as to who were the ... But in your statement to us, you are saying that the community organised this march against the municipal police who were violating human rights. Is there a connection? We used to call them Chigogos, the municipal police who came to stop their cars where we were and they said we should look out for a red golf as well as a brown toyota combi, and these cars were going to pass by with weapons, and the police went back. As we were still waiting there I think fifteen ... ... killed or suffered any damage to property as a result of such acts, omission or offences, his response has also been very specific and precise,"two municipal police died, or three, and a ... MS CRICHTON: I just have a couple of questions for you. The police that broke into your house on that day, were they amaChaka, were they Municipal Police? MR DUMA: They were being shot at by the Municipal police. ... The applicant however admitted that he knew the deceased very well as they stayed in the same location. He in fact knew that the deceased was a municipal policeman since June or July 1991 but throughout that period till the 25th of December, he did not seem to perceive him as an enemy even ... What happened that caused you to stop working? --- It started when I was tortured by the soldiers. I was working for the Corporation, for the Municipality, and I knocked off on the particular day. When I got off the Municipality bus, heading for KwaMashu location - when I got into the bus ... |
