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right-wing attacksExplanation Showing 841 to 860 of 1017 First Page•Previous Page 39 •40 •41 •42 •43 •44 •45 •46 •47 Next Page•Last PageOn the day in question, Applicant and his fellow SDU members were patrolling the township in defence of members of the community against attacks from the contending forces of the Inkatha Freedom Party ("IFP"). They had earlier received information from a source within the police that the IFP ... ... of the said offences and that he acted on its behalf. He further testified that both Mbokazi and Shandu were IFP supporters who instigated attacks on ANC ... ... legislation, several States of Emergency, constant threats of closure, which were very real, bannings or censorship and sustained Government attacks on the English press and TML newspapers in particular. We did not doubt the willingness of Government to act against the media if given the ... Anglo was the - stood out during these times and the National Government of the time looked on as far from friendly and there were very many hostile attacks, both on Anglo and on its chairman, my father, first, Gavin really after him and more recently Julian Ogilvy Thompson, who were portrayed as ... MS COLERIDGE: It's the Sacred Heart Church and Chairperson, it's not actually the church that's been destroyed, but actually the Church hall and the attacks were all on the Church hall. attacks, matter No 13 under Motsamai, and next to it appears the letters ... occasions they were harassed and attacked by certain people within the township. But he was not able to explain to us how it came about that the attacks which the hostel dwellers perpetrated on the residents of this township - how it was that they were so brutal in their nature, and so ... We must be mad. So it maybe I survived their attacks then and I'll die under my own Government because Ramarighera and Manage is still in charge of the people, if I need protection, who must provide that protection? MR RICHARD: Now without labouring the point, if I summed up the policy by saying that at no stage was it ever the policy of the ANC to commit attacks on pure civilian targets, am I correct? ... as traitors and puppets by their fellow black people including members of one's own family and friends. In whatever neighbourhood one resided attacks upon soldiers and their families and social and political pressures directed against soldiers were nearly unendurable. At that same time I ... MR KOOPEDI: I see, is it correct that you are also applying for amnesty for having planned an executed all these attacks, is that correct? MR VISSER: And were there already acts of sabotage and terrorist attacks during the early '70's? ... those problems to them that, as it transpired, we are operating under threats at Port St Johns. Now we fear that at some stage we will come across attacks as it normally happens in other areas of South Africa, we were afraid we would be attacked. That's why we wouldn't hesitate. After we got ... MR BERGER: And even if you hadn't attended that meeting, somebody would have said to you; by the Themba Khosa was here today, talking about the attacks on us, am I right? He was an ANC member who returned from exile in 1992 when he experienced harassment from the police. Although he was residing at Zola, he participated in the Self Defence Unit (SDU) in Meadowlands where the community was under more immediate threat of attacks. there extensive evidence was covered about how Stratcom worked, how the Security Police worked, how Vlakplaas was the operational base for all these attacks. Hence you find in this incident that my reading of the documentation before me is that when a decision was made, Vlakplaas was approached ... MR CRONIN: Well, as I’m saying, in many townships I believe that they saw them as their line of defence in the face of some horrific attacks but in other cases the communities themselves were - and our own structures, were deeply concerned about the role that some self-defence units were playing ... MR BRINK: Was the purpose of training as members of Self Defence Units to protect your local community against attacks, incursions by hostile forces from the outside? MR BOOYENS: And in this war? Can you briefly state, were you involved in any attacks? I do not aspire to communistic or political ideals of any sort but as individual human beings we all share a tremendous sense of loss of our loved ones. The process of transition to democracy was irreversible at this point in time when the attacks took place. |
