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Three Million gangExplanation MR T V MATSEPE: Were any of your family members harmedby either the Three Million Gang and/or George Ramasimong himself? ... before this young man was killed? --- Before my brother died he was with my brother's son, Roland Petrus. He had killed the gang leader of the Three Million Gang of Kroonstad. He was with him on that specific ... ... I was from a patrol and all the members of the unit were present, then we saw a Kombi, then our leader said we should go into a Kombi because the Three Million gang members have attacked. We went there - when we arrived we spread around to observe, then we had whistles, then when we heard the ... 2. Although the Committee cannot, on the evidence before it, find that the Three Million Gang was protected or assisted by the police or the judicial staff in any unlawful manner,the Committee finds that in the circumstances then prevailing it could not be discarded as an unreasonable perception. ... You have come to relate your story about being harassed by a certain gang called the "Three Million", which was in Kroonstad. Can you please start by telling us as to what happened to you, according to your statement? --- In 1990, on the 1st of December 1990, I was harassed by the Three ... ... part of Kroonstad, we were forming the defence units in 1990, I can’t remember the day and the month. It was in preparation of the fact that the Three Million gang should not harass the community anymore because this was the usual thing to do, harassing the people, raping the people, killing ... MR LYSTER: Thank you very much. You have come to usfrom Kroonstad, and you have come to tell us about the death of your husband,Jacob Tipe, who was killed by the Three Million Gang. Before you give your storyplease could you stand up and take the oath. ... nothing in the advanced reasons that could have given the applicant any reason to reasonably conclude that the deceased was a collaborator with the Three Million Gang nor that he was perceived to be an enemy of the ANC and its structures by virtue of his office as a policeman and this evidence is ... ... These two people were my friends, it happened that there was a conflict between myself between Musala and his other friends whom were called the Three Million Gang. I want to explain shortly, the background about my friends and the Three Million, so that I want the Truth Commission to ... Your honour, I would just like to mention I did the 3 Million investigation or so called 3 Million investigation in Kroonstad. The reason why I'm saying this is that the political motive around which I saw these people, the 3 Millions were ANC Youth League people who acted alone with the ANC ... ADV DE JAGER: Mr de Ru, were you involved in the investigation in Kroonstad of the Three Million gang? MR MEMANI: And did you come to know about the "Three Million Gang"? ... the PAC and AZAPO in some cases. And although we have set it out in our submission it's important that we all rather repeat it here. You had the Three Million Gang in the Free State which played a particular role which was very destabilising to organisations there. You had the Black Cats in ... For fuller particulars about the activities of the Three Million Gang the decisions in the applications of inter alia Petrus Thulo and Edwin Kambule can be referred to. ... of Maokeng. Sometime prior to the 30th of October 1992, the applicant was being sought by white policemen in connection with the killing of a Three Million Gang member in Gelukwaarts. To avoid arrests by the police, the applicant and his two compatriots left for the old location in Maokeng ... It is accepted that the ANC Youth and the Three Million Gang were opposing political organisations but on the evidence the committee is not satisfied that this killing was associated with a political objective. Although the applicant denied that he acted under the influence of liquor he admitted ... ... to stories which we have heard from people in the Free State, where we heard about similar gangs. We heard about gangs called the Eagles and the Three Million gang, and all these gangs were set up in the same way and had the same aim, to intimidate, to harass, and to kill politically active ... ... In many areas, people known to belong to the UDF were attacked, their homes burned, many were killed, and survivors became refugees. More than a million people fled their homes in the ensuing decade. The violence has been particularly brutal and sadistic, with considerable evidence of ... ... also told us that there are some perpetrators who were perpetrators because they were defending the communities from some of the gangs, especially Three Million Gang here in the Free State. And then the regime, because it was working with those, the old regime, had to put them in gaol, and then ... Mr Phehlani, does the - what is the name of the group, theEagles or the Three Million Gang, mean to you? --- We did not have that ThreeMillion at Brandfort. We had the Eagles and those who were calling themselvesthe ANC Youths. The Three Millions were the guys from Kroonstad, not in Brandfort. |