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PassExplanation Then I was offered employment in Woodstock. But then I was arrested and my uncle found me at Pollsmoor. At the time I was arrested for the pass, because I didn't have my pass. I was still working. While I was still working they also fetched me again. The same place where I was working. I was ... ... conflict or perhaps more major things, and I would guess that one of the areas that would have had to be considered was the whole question of the pass laws and how they impacted on people's lives, would you say that the abolition of the pass laws was part of a strategy in a ... KwaNdebele area and killings continued. Until today people left their original places. They went and stayed somewhere else until today. I want to pass this issue by saying if there is any other way that the Commission would help bring peace and reconciliation between those people who call ... assaulting the youth as such. So the people thought the best way to deal with the deceased was that we have to go to the headman and seek the "trek pass" so that he must be banished from the village. So the headman came back from the Reef. So he was made aware of the incident that took place in ... ... situation of the team and my final job relating to that was that once the device had been successfully placed, every member of the team was to pass a certain check point and I believe in fact one of the members of the team, or one of the groups, was to collect me - the final group to pass ... It was brought into existence some time in 1977 through what looked like a very legitimate effort to pass, gather and make the world aware of what was happening in South Africa. It was in 1977, run by a gentleman by the name of Mr Chris Wood, if I recall and when Marius and Jeanette settled in ... Vusi Maduna is working for us. On one Saturday when he was actually going to have a meeting with Archie at Clermont, after I ...[indistinct] on the pass, the comrades were waiting for him and then they killed him and they burned him there and then, that's how he ... CHAIRPERSON: And then you would just sign and pass on, so this is a formality that you would sign and pass on to the Minister? You would not verify the award? ... their beloved because of the incident I was involved in. I would like to apologise for what happened during the conflicts in Pietermaritzburg. I pass my sincerest apologies even though that may not help them because they have already lost their loved ones. I would like the Committee to help me ... situations happen and how could they be prevented? And that should be part of the problem the TRC won't finish solving but part of that duty must be passed on. Not only to the teachers, and they need retraining because you can't expect the teachers who spent thirty five years not teaching about ... MR KOOLE: It's not correct Chairperson, when we go from Golele, you pass Josini dam. The dam is between Golele and Piet Retief, the dam is in between the two places. ... problem which I experienced would be that I would be there at approximately dusk, observing the house and people would become restless, they would pass the vehicle, look into the vehicle. Upon one or two occasions I asked people for directions, I obtained the names of certain surrounding ... ... at Wits the first response was that I needed to get permission from the Minister to attend at this university as a Black student. Even when I passed the Joint Matriculation Board examinations with a first class pass this did not help the situation as the university had to oblige by ... ... it was a Government created platform. It had been discredited because of its inability to improve the lot of black people, particularly under the pass laws, but nevertheless, it decided as a last resort to send its Committee on Education with the hope that because it was a statutory body ... MR NOSENGA: You pass the township first. MR MHLONGO: He stood up, he came straight to me, that's when I started shooting at him and I let him go, or pass. MS MASHININI: Yes, yes. Even when you pass there I would even see you. 2.2 the attempted murder of Sergeant Otto in a shoot-out in the Ficksburg by-pass on 10 December 1992 and any other offence flowing from the said shoot-out; the only males that were circumcised were Jews, so even if the Jewish Men looked, could pass for Arian, right, if he were caught of course his identity as Jew would easily be found, you know, just drop your pants. So even in the conditions of hiding, they weren't able to provide for their families ... MR VAN ZYL: We then travelled with the two vehicles in the direction of the Olifantshoek Pass. I drove with my vehicle and along the road, we found a suitable place where we stopped and parked the two vehicles off the road from where we could actually observe the road. |