Port Shepstone

The divisional headquarters of the Port Natal Security Branch was based at CR Swart SAP Headquarters in Durban, with branches or operatives based at Port Shepstone, Scottsburgh and Stanger. 222. Port Natal Security Branch played an extensive role in relation to MK activities in and from Swaziland. ...

... implication of perpetrators and similarities in modus operandi. This was particularly the case in Richmond in the Natal Midlands, in Umbumbulu and Port Shepstone on the South Coast. 426 In Port Shepstone, a group of youths, allegedly operating under the command of Mr Dululu Sipho Dlamini and Mr ...

... few cases where IFP members and right-wingers took part in joint attacks. The most notable of these was the bombing of the Seychelles restaurant in Port Shepstone. Mr Christo Brand [AM6422/97], Mr Morton Christie [AM6610/97], Mr Harry Jardine [AM6178/97], Mr Patrick Pedlar, Mr Roy Lane and Mr ...

... on the victim to cover-up the killing. 67 On 7 July 1991, Mr Madoda Mkhize [KZN/NN/162/PM] and returnee Mr Thulani Xaba were shot by police in Port Shepstone. Xaba died, but Mkhize escaped from the hospital and was shot again in Durban. 68 Mr Wellington Mbili, a nineteen-year-old MK member ...

... Patrick Pedlar, Roy Lane and Andrew Howell [AM5961/97] all applied for amnesty in respect of the bombing of the Seychelles restaurant in Port Shepstone in February 1994 and the attack on the Flagstaff police station in the Transkei during March 1994. One police officer was killed and ...

... Seychelles Restaurant attack 79 . In February 1994, the same IFP and AWB members conspired to carry out an attack on the Seychelles Restaurant at Port Shepstone. Mr Morton Christie, Mr Harry Jardine and Mr Andrew Howell applied for amnesty for the arson attack that destroyed the restaurant. ...

Peninsula (Helderberg/Tygerberg) August 05 - 08 Sebokeng August 12 - 16 Pretoria August 12 - 14 Beaufort West August 12 - 14 Port Shepstone August 26 - 28 Uitenhage August 29 - 30 Durban September 02 - 05 Nelspruit September 09 - 11 Bisho ...

... along the way. THE STORY OF THE MZELEMU FAMILY 3. On 2 April 1994, members of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) attacked the Mzelemu family home at Port Shepstone. On that day, Ndukuzempi William Mzelemu lost almost his entire family: his 84-year-old mother, Cekise, his first wife Doris and seven ...

... amnesty application1 9 1, Nick Fourie192 and Patrick Pedlar were his superior officers in the AWB. Christie testified that the Security Branch in Port Shepstone encouraged the operation and monitored it while it was taking place. He also testified that Patrick Pedlar, the operational leader of ...

... [AM6627/97; AC/2000/058] was granted amnesty for a shoot-out with police in the Umzumbe area while he was transporting weapons from Gamalakhe, Port Shepstone, in July 1991. ANCYL and SDU member Frank B Khanyile [AM6108/97; AC/2000/014] was granted amnesty for an incident in October 1991 when ...

... heard, including testimony relating to the murder of prominent trade unionists in Mpophomeni Township. The hearings were very well attended. d Port Shepstone (12-14 August 1996). At the Port Shepstone hearing, thirty-nine cases were heard from an area torn apart by political violence, ...

... the certified personnel register of MK. There was also a suggestion that Sbu Mkhize was involved in the murder of IFP leader Mr Wiseman Mthembu in Port Shepstone in December 1991. 415 On 22 February 1992, Mr Mnandi Dladla, IFP deputy-secretary in Wembezi, was shot near his home by an ...

... Police and Public Civil Rights Union Nel, C D H O Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa Network of Independent Monitors, Port Shepstone Olivier, Pierre J J Omar, A M - Minister of Justice Practical Ministries Rasefate, R E Rautenbach, E D Ravele, F H Richard, ...

Revenge attacks 396 A former IFP youth leader from Izingolweni, inland of Port Shepstone, applied for amnesty in respect of fifteen murders and eight attempted murders committed between 1991 and 1992. Mr Goodman Muswakhe Ngcobo [AM5632/97] was convicted in September 1993 on ten counts of murder ...

... had been charged with an attack at the Flagstaff police station to obtain weapons.1 7 2 H o w ever, Mr Zulu was shot and killed at a taxi rank in Port Shepstone before his amnesty hearing. Several victims testified before the Commission that Zulu had been implicated in a number of ...

was parked outside the police station, arrested the men. It was then that the shoot-out began. 113. Christie testified that, during the trial, the Port Shepstone Security Branch was unable to explain why, having had knowledge of the operation, it did not attempt to stop it and why it took nine ...

the Midlands. A number of violations were also reported in Northern Natal (Madadeni, Msinga, Vryheid, Nkandla), on the lower South Coast (Gamalakhe, Port Shepstone), and on the North Coast (Empangeni). ...

425 Murchison resident Ms Hilda Memela [KZN/NNN/110/PS], whose 21-year-old son Nelson, an ANC supporter, was shot dead, told the Commission at the Port Shepstone hearing that the police warned witnesses that their lives would be endangered if they made statements: We sat there for quite some ...

... who fled in all directions. At the time, Ms Dlamini [KZN/KM/543/PS] was sitting outside her house listening to the children singing. At the Port Shepstone hearing, she told the story of that day: I heard a rumble of guns and there were gunshots all over. And the children started running, ...

... that as many as 200 Bhambayi residents had died violently. The Killing of the Zulu Family On 4 September 1991, the home of Mr James Zulu in Port Shepstone was attacked and four members of his family massacred. At the time, Zulu was a respected community leader and an ANC member, although ...