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people's war

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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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An Alexandra Civic Association member who was shot and burnt to death by named SAP members in Alexandra, Johannesburg, on 22 April 1986. He was helping to organise a mass funeral for nineteen people killed in clashes between residents and hostel-dwellers. After he was shot, he ran into a house ...
Was shot and killed by IFP supporters at Inkanyezini, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu, near Durban, on 5 March 1993, allegedly in a revenge attack. Five other people were killed in the attack.
Was severely injured when members of the Orde Boerevolk opened fire with automatic weapons on a passenger bus in Durban on 9 October 1990. Seven people were killed and twenty seven were injured in the attack. Amnesty was granted to two of the three applicants and refused to the leader of the unit ...
A UDF supporter whose house was looted and set alight on 6 April 1990 when a group of Inkatha supporters attacked UDF supporters and residents at Mpumalanga, KwaZulu, near Durban, in spite of a heavy police and military presence. Fourteen people were killed and at least one hundred and twenty homes ...
Was severely injured when members of the Orde Boerevolk opened fire with automatic weapons on a passenger bus in Durban on 9 October 1990. Seven people were killed and twenty seven injured in the attack. Amnesty was granted to two of the three applicants and refused to the leader of the unit ...
An ANC supporter whose home was destroyed by Inkatha supporters during intense political violence in Woodyglen, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu, near Durban, on 11 February 1990, the same day Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Ten people were killed in the fighting which lasted for a week. A former IFP ...
An ANC supporter who was shot and injured by members of the SAP in Robertson, Cape, on 11 April 1990. Police fired teargas into a crowded hall where residents were meeting. Over one hundred people were treated for injuries relating to the subsequent stampede and shootings.
An ANC supporter who was shot and injured by members of the SAP in Robertson, Cape, on 11 April 1990. Police fired teargas into a crowded hall where residents were meeting. Over one hundred people were treated for injuries relating to the subsequent stampede and shootings.
An ANC supporter who was shot dead on 11 September 1992 when armed gunmen attacked homes of suspected ANC supporters at Gobandlovu, KwaZulu, near Empangeni, Natal. Six people died, one was injured and several homes were burnt down in this attack. At least four of those killed were from the Gumede ...
His house was looted by Inkatha supporters during intense political violence in Woodyglen, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu, near Durban, on 11 February 1990, the same day Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Ten people were killed in the fighting which lasted for a week. A former IFP member was granted ...
Was burnt and severely injured when armed gunmen attacked homes of suspected ANC supporters at Gobandlovu, KwaZulu, near Empangeni, Natal. Six people died, one was injured and several homes were burnt down in this attack. At least four of those killed were from the Gumede family. The family ...
Was shot dead on 11 September 1992 when armed gunmen attacked homes of suspected ANC supporters at Gobandlovu, KwaZulu, near Empangeni, Natal. Six people died, one was injured and several homes were burnt down in this attack. At least four of those killed were from the Gumede family. The family ...
An ANC supporter who died after he was shot in the head by members of the SAP at Ngcobo, Stutterheim, Cape, on 25 November 1985. Police opened fire on a group of people returning from a meeting of the Stutterheim Youth Congress.
An ANC supporter who was shot in the shoulder by members of the Ciskei Defence Force (CDF) in Bisho, Ciskei, on 7 September 1992 during an ANC protest march to demand free political activity in Ciskei. Thirty people were killed and two hundred people injured in what became known as the Bisho ...
An ANC supporter who was shot dead on 11 September 1992 when armed gunmen attacked a number of homes believed to belong to ANC supporters at Gobandlovu, KwaZulu, near Empangeni, Natal. Six people were killed and several houses burnt down. At least four of those killed were from the Gumede family. ...
An ANC supporter who was shot dead on 11 September 1992 when armed gunmen attacked a number of homes believed to belong to ANC supporters at Gobandlovu, KwaZulu, near Empangeni, Natal. Six people were killed and several houses burnt down. At least four of those killed were from the Gumede family. ...
Was shot dead by named IFP supporters in Imbali, Pietermaritzburg, in June 1991, during ongoing political conflict. The perpetrators opened fire on a group of people as they were talking with a well-known ANC supporter.
An ANC supporter who was shot dead on 11 September 1992 when armed gunmen attacked a number of homes believed to belong to ANC supporters at Gobandlovu, KwaZulu, near Empangeni, Natal. Six people were killed and several houses burnt down. At least four of those killed were from the Gumede family. ...
Was severely stabbed and injured when she was attacked in her home by a named Inkatha supporter in the Ekwazini area, Ndwedwe, KwaZulu, near Durban, on 8 July 1990. Other family members were injured in the attack and at least two other people were killed in the attack.
Was shot and injured when a group of Inkatha supporters and Caprivi trainees attacked a UDF meeting in a house at Mpumalanga, KwaZulu, near Durban, on 18 January 1988. Nine people were killed and an estimated two hundred people were injured in the attack. The group went on to destroy around eight ...
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