Poqo

REVD XUNDU: Mr Nyawhoza, your story here says that in 1965 you were arrested for being a member of POQO, can you please tell us in your own words what happened, thank you.

Your husband, according to this statement, was - his views were in contras to the POQO Regime.

Then he said no they say we are members of the PAC - of the Poqo wing - then I was surprised. There were other men who had been arrested with us and they had been taken and made State Witnesses against giving evidence about us. And before long Mr Makulani was removed from there and I was left ...

cause of his arrest. Was he perhaps an activist, politically, and give us a full picture of his activities which led to his arrest. Gqibile was a POQO ...

ADV SANDI: You don't know why it was formed, okay. Do you know anything about POQO, in relation to the history of the PAC?

Tragically, Sharpeville and the Poqo uprising, amongst others, signalled a frightening trend and development. On the other hand Herren Volkanism gained the upper hand and brought even more racial intolerance and polarisation.

is a PAC member who was ever attacked by members of the gangsters, but there are members of the PAC who were attacked by the gangsters. And here at Poqo, you do not generally call each other by the real name, you would use false names. We generally call each other M'Africa and ...

32. After the banning of the PAC in 1960 militant PAC members founded a paramilitary movement called POQO ( ie "pure", "we stand alone" or "black alone"). POQO's aim was to create a climate of chaos and panic through carefully planned and well-executed armed action. During the period 1962 to ...

... to me: "You are going to see them now after a long time. You are going away". That is how I got arrested. Only to find that I was arrested for Poqo, something which is very funny to me because I once attended a meeting of the PAC, chaired by Reverend Matthews. It was just here. I was ...

... it was in the morning. It was at about 1 in the morning. I thought that he did not see me. He passed me, he then came back. He said, come out Poqo. We were known as Poqo at the time. He talked Afrikaans, saying that, come out ...

... African Resistance Movement, which included members of the Liberal Party as well as individuals from splinter socialist groupings. The PAC launched Poqo. There were also attempts to set up armed units by elements which had broken away from the Unity Movement. ...

we promised that this second presentation would concentrate on the mandate of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) which was earlier known as POQO. The dictionary meaning of the word mandate is the "power or a command given by someone in higher authority". The formation of APLA was inspired ...

... had decided that I had come with a bad omen, because I came as an organisation that was going to divide them with their women. I am coming here as Poqo At that time the women were very happy with the organisation, this women's organisation. We hadn't taken any actions yet. I was still ...