Sharpeville Six

... Xolani and you are also going to give some explanation connected to this incident which is a full picture of what happened in Langa in Cape Town in Sharpeville and even here in Uitenhage. We therefore welcome you before this Commission. Just before you say anything, I would like to highlight ...

On a more personal note, everyone focuses on the big picture of apartheid and I too disagree with it. I know about Sharpeville, I learnt about it at school and I do listen to the news even though I know very little about politics. I sat at school and spoke to Black girls in my classes and saw ...

M OLIPHANT: It was in 1990 on the 11th of May. The students were gathered together with their leaders and the aim of that gathering was to march to the court. We wanted to complain against the youth who was caught on the 21st of March when we were celebrating the Sharpeville Day.

... the plight of these people who were sentenced to death by this regime and many, many of them were saved, and one can highlight the example of the Sharpeville six, which received a great deal of international attention. There were judges as well who did not impose the death penalty and they ...

... Mama. Do not be disturbed. When I leave this country look at the people who died, the many children who died and many people who died in Sharpeville. I will be like them if I can stay here and he said I will go to Zambia. Maybe I can meet my sister and then I just kept ...

... and also in the Transvaal, the then Transvaal, the main activities was the start of the rent boycotts were started in the Vaal, Sebokeng and Sharpeville townships and then it spread to Soweto and also Alexandra then came into the picture during 1986. And also during 1995 there was the ...

MR MADONSELA: I was not quite sure whether he stayed at Sharpeville, or Simondale, one of the two, but yes, I knew him.

... case that was a common purpose case, just to demonstrate something on the judges. The most famous of the common purpose cases are obviously the Sharpeville Six and the Upington 14 and I have dealt with these in my submission, but I want to look briefly at the Queenstown Six, less known in our ...

MR BERGER: From the 12th of January 1992 until June 1992, there was a lot of violence in the Vaal, Sharpeville, Sebokeng, but not Boipatong. Do you know of anyone who was killed, any IFP member who was killed in Boipatong or by residents of Boipatong after Mr Bongani Mbatha was killed and until ...

And I'm just sorry that it had to be your mother and your father. Much as I think we are also sorry that we lost our people in Boipatong, in Sharpeville, the Pebco 3, the twins at the Umtata Massacre - so if you can wear my jacket I can wear yours.

... reasons of economic sabotage and armed propaganda for committing this act, it was also committed to commemorate what has become known as the Sharpeville ...

MR BERGER: So as far as you were concerned you could quite equally have attacked Bophelong, Sharpeville, Sebokeng, any of those townships you could have attacked?

During 1992 and 1993, the applicant was a member of the self Defence Unit in or about Sharpeville.

... tell us and I can see here you were a member of the Youth League in 1950, and in 1957 you were in the forefront in the struggle, and during the Sharpeville massacre, you were also locked in for 60 days, and I think you are one of the people who have been very loyal to the struggle despite of ...

something which might help you. In 1987 or 88 the ANC was negotiating with the Zimbabwean government for exchange of prisoners. Myself, including Sharpeville 6 were on the list and three other comrades who were on death row with me, to be changed for the apartheid spies who were sent over to do ...

... Charlie just this morning, there seems to have been a quantitative leap in what you call the professional interrogation, between say the time of Sharpeville when it seemed that quite a number of the people who were taken in detention that time had a fairly bumbling experience of how they were ...

COMMISSIONER: Again, if you can just - if we can go back to that time, what was the atmosphere in Sharpeville and Sebokeng, in the townships generally? Why was the army

NGUBENI: I know two or three, Comrade Zwakala Nhlapo from Zone 7, he was shot and killed in 1992, as well as Magesta from Soweto, he was deployed in Sharpeville, he died at the hands of the police, because they were the last people with whom he had been seen, as well as Comrade Ramgwana who was ...

MR BOOYENS: You also have knowledge of the 1961 Sharpeville incident?

... to the mere participation in the political struggle or political opposition to the then Government policies round about 1961 after the so called Sharpeville incident, uMkhonto weSizwe was formed and it was emphasised that there should always be supremacy of the politics over the narrow ...