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PEBCO Three

Explanation
Sipho Hashe, Champion Galela and Qaqawuli Godolozi, members of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO), an affiliate of the UDF, were abducted on 8 May 1985 by members of the Port Elizabeth Security Branch, taken to Post Chalmers and killed. Their bodies were subsequently thrown into the Fish River. Askaris from the Vlakplaas unit assisted in the operation.

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MS HARTLE: May it please the Committee. My name is Belinda Hartle. I represent Mesdames Benedict Nompolelo and Nombeko Edith Godolozi, the mother and daughter of the late Pebco president, Qaqawuli Godolozi.
ADV BOOYENS: And do you also confirm that you are applying for amnesty for the abduction and death of the Pebco 3 on the 8th of May, in Port Elizabeth and Cradock?
... that there was a specific reason for the abduction, and on the other hand that you also had an interest in potential information which these three Pebco members could provide you ...
MR BOOYENS: Mr Du Plessis, you have given reasonably thorough evidence regarding the Pebco application, pertaining the political background, what the politicians said then, what they are saying now and so forth, is that correct?
"PEBCO 3"
and disappearance of the Pebco, namely S. Hashe, Galela and
were also active in the forefront and looking into people like Mrs Gcala, who was also very influential when coming to Women's League or whatever in PEBCO, so those were actual instructions that one has to target the influential ...
ADV LAMEY: They will also say that the Pebco 3 were blindfolded at one stage and also handcuffed while on the way to Post Chalmers?
MR BIZOS: Where were you when the PEBCO 3 disappeared?
MR BOOYENS: So the first statement had nothing to do with PEBCO, is that what you're saying?
... of Mr du Plessis which is dated the 29 of January 1986. There is an extract from a Herald report dated Wednesday, August the 3rd: "Missing Pebco Men Were In ...
CHAIRPERSON: Today is the 18th of May 1998. We are back with the Pebco matter, just to listen to oral argument, over and above heads of argument which either have been filed or will soon be filed.
MR NYOKA: Sorry Mr Chairman, I wish to be corrected if I am wrong. Are we about the historical background of Mr Mamasela or about the Pebco inquiry?
abduction of the PEBCO 3 and assault on Sipho Charles Hashe and Qaqawuli Godolozi.
... amnesty application relating to the prescribed form and the annexure regarding the background and specifically the particulars with regard to the Pebco 3 ...
Let us deal with the Pebco 3. You were involved in that?
MR DU PLESSIS: Now we have two statements. Exhibit O and exhibit V. Were there any other statements about the PEBCO matter that you signed under oath?
ADV BOOYENS: And then on page 112, more or less in the middle of the page, you refer to the founding of Pebco in the black townships, is that correct?
... we were helping with the interrogation of this Toto that the head of the Port Elizabeth Security Branch came to us and he informed us about this PEBCO 3 that they did succeed to intercept their telephonic conversation with Kazimile Botha who promised to send someone British Ambassador or ...
ADV BOOYENS: Were you aware of the organisation Pebco?
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