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Municipal PoliceExplanation ... the Wesselton community. In addition, it was apparent that the ACC were being supported by the South African Police, the IFP, as well as the municipal authorities. It further transpired that members of the ACC, the Black Cats were trained operatives of the ... ... of their operations if the cases against them proceeded. This has been confirmed by the evidence of General Van Tonder. The first nation wide municipal elections were held on 26 October 1988. A number of Caprivi Trainees have confirmed that they were concealed from police detection ... ... and reaction unit. The actions to be implemented are, day and night roadblocks, maintaining mobile reaction units similar to the South African Municipal Police system. This task is then to be done by 228 members of the Ciskei Police and Ciskei Defence Force. ... municipal police which were in Jouberton. MR MOHALE: Yes they were Municipal Police. Sometimes it was not necessarily Municipal Police alone, they would sometimes come in the company of the then SAP, South African Police. ... came towards his house, followed by other people known as NKATHA. [Note this may refer to the vigilante group known as Amasolomzi or to the Municipal ... ... creation of a third force was made inappropriate due to the surrounding financial and legal problems. He further stated that the establishment of Municipal Police and the extension of the Riot Control Unit negated the need for the establishment of such a force. It was specifically minuted that ... Tembisa was granted municipal status in 1983 by means of election. Only 14% of the residents voted. In 1984 the Town Council collapsed and it was replaced by seven Black administrators and one White chairperson. At that stage the Civic Association emerged and started questioning the imbalances ... ... said, what we want from you is you are going to tell us where our firearms are which you took and went to give to the Mungundwana, the Rats, the municipal ... ADV DE JAGER: As well as attacks on police officers and their houses, black police officers specifically. Was any distinction made by the attackers, whether you were a normal police officer or a security officer or a municipal officer? go and see what is happening. As you people say the municipal buildings are falling off, they would like to go and see what is going on. I might be unfortunate, one might be shot at. And secondly my baby is at the créche, the créche is just behind the hostel, if it collapses it is going to reach ... ... crime investigation and that had nothing to do with security matters, that should have been handled by security matters. That did not exist. Even municipal police, traffic officers, were involved in arresting political activists, even members of the public, if they were so ... Let me indicate here that there was a time when there was an indiscriminate type of situation, vis a vis, the police, including municipal police. At some stage we moved to a position where we did not go on with an indiscriminate attitude towards them, because we could realise that there were some ... ... to them. The superintendent Piet Fouche had agreed to issue letters in their files which stated that those houses were not to be raided by the municipal police, the black jacks and when I left the Council that position stayed up to the time when the influx control laws were abolished that ... When the police from Middelburg arrived, it was early in the morning. When we tried again to continue with the protest, they prevented us again. So the students were totally against this and they went to the township where they actually attacked a Municipal van. ... the yellow ones. According to me they were policemen. But I was told later on that those people were not the real policemen, they were the municipal policemen, but because they were using the SAP uniform and the SAP vehicles, I went to them with the full trust that they are the police, ... ... been stolen, for example, they would give it new numbers and it would be, the owners would be registered, but it will be registered as far as the municipal authority is concerned, I didn't know about, my impression was that it will have an ordinary say Transvaal registration number in those ... The complex in question which accommodated South African Police as well as Municipal Police personnel was attacked during 1988. After the movements of the security personnel was surveilled, Mazibuko placed a super limpet mine against the wall of one of the houses occupied by the security ... ... on that day there was a rent boycott and most of the pupils and their friends from Robertson school were to hold a placard demonstration at the Municipal offices. On their way to the offices, on the corner of Barry Street at the Grand Hotel the police confronted them and asked them where ... MS CRICHTON: Was it the Municipal police? |
