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people's war

Explanation
a popular national rebellion of both trained soldiers and ordinary civilians during the mid- to late 80s. The strategy, promoted by the ANC, involved integrating armed MK combatants with mass organisations inside South African townships, and rendering the townships ungovernable through attacks on the security forces and other representatives of the state.

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Questioned about his own motive the Applicant replied that he wanted to stop attacks and the murder of farmers and aged people. He believed that the murders were committed by political activists and that were motivated by what was said by political leaders and slogans that they sang and that it ...
... put by Mr Donan, Griebenauw said that he was never told of a convention signed by the South African Government in 1949, relating to internal wars. He wasn't aware that his convention specifically forbade torture of people who were either injured who had been detained during a war. ...
MR HOBOYI: The people who attacked us, we didn't know where they were coming from. We were asleep, it was me and the other twins were staying next door to us. The house was a newly-built house, it didn't have burglar proofing. Outside I heard gunshots. I was dreaming of people
6. When his attention was drawn to the fact that he had admitted his application form that he had committed the crimes, the Applicant explained that he was innocent, but had been advised that should he deny guilt, his application would have been reused in chambers in terms of the provisions of the ...
According to the deceased's mother the deceased was a member of the ANC; in fact even at the time of his death. She says people who described themselves as members of the ANC in Klerksdorp, some of them in the organisation's uniform, attended the deceased's funeral and actually helped her. She ...
MR BOOYENS: Was your function to drive the people in to the point where the ambush was set up?
MR BOOYENS: When the assault had taken place there by Mr de Kock and the other people, did you interfere in any manner and if not, why not?
Thank you very much, your story depicts to us how children would loose their parents in a terrible way. So many children are orphans as a result of that. It also reflex the injustices of the previous regime. This is why the Bishop said yesterday sometimes to go to a court of law was never an ...
The following people participated in the execution of the order, Captain Baker, Wouter Mentz, Pieter Botha, Riaan Bellingan, Mr Nortje and Mr Chate.
MR DLAMINI: There were people who assisted.
MR HUGO: Mr Chairman, we submit that our argument would be the same. What was actually more enlightening was when Mr de Kock said that if the problems with the protection of sensitive information, that they actually went so far as to kill people to protect those sensitive information and details ...
Crause testified that he accompanied Loots, Smit, Wehrmann and Modise.  He helped Modise to cross the flooded Ramotswe river and thereafter accompanied him to a house which he pointed out as the target to the Special Forces members.  He and Modise then stayed behind while the three members ...
All the Applicants testified that they then noticed a group of people at the Tavern with Selai who had been captured and was being interrogated and assaulted for having assisted the IFP in terrorising the community. The fourth Applicant stabbed Selai on his hand with a knife. The second Applicant ...
2. The deceased was a chairperson of the ANC in the area. The applicant was an IFP supporter. His family had been killed by ANC people. Applicant had only heard that the deceased was responsible for the killing of his family. However, the deceased was at the forefront of the peace negotiations ...
From there he couldn't sleep, he had nightmares and blood was flowing all over. Some of them couldn't even walk. Then they said, "Your boy are stubborn, you write in the newspapers that we policemen are killing people". On that newspaper it was written that police were killing people and they ...
Incidentally who in the Army is deciding that, are they MK people or SADF people?
MR NEL: Did you know at all when you went to Khanya House that there were people in the building?
MR MNGONA: Even in the community, things should be improved, the schools, the villages, everything in our community so that we can enjoy life just like other people in other areas.
MR POTGIETER: Thank you, you may be seated. Welcome to George as well. Mr Lizo, your evidence relates to two incidents. The first one concerns an incident which happened between 1986 and 1987 where you were arrested and tortured by the police, and the second incident relates to August 1993 when ...
But in another way - it could be, because you hear, that all though he was killed in this gruesome way, for the people of the community - he died as a hero. And so as his daughter, you can gain encouragement from the knowledge that you have a father who paid this very heavy price, but gave his ...
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