Trust Feeds massacre

Explanation
The attack that came to be known as the 'Trust Feeds massacre' was planned by Riot, Security and local policemen and Inkatha members. Members of the SAP and the Riot Unit arrested known UDF supporters at Trust Feeds, New Hanover, near Pietermaritzburg, on 2 December 1988 and then withdrew from the area, leaving UDF-supporting families particularly vulnerable to attack. The next day, 3 December 1988, four Special Constables stormed and opened fire on an all-night prayer vigil in a house believed by the perpetrators to be occupied by UDF supporters. Eleven people were killed. None of the victims or survivors were UDF supporters. An SAP member and four Special Constables were convicted for the murders. The Commission granted amnesty to a former SAP captain for his part in planning and executing the attack.

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims

Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pietermaritzburg, Day 3

Let us move on to the events that led up to the massacre in Trust Feeds, the well publicised massacre for which Brian Mitchell and others are presently in gaol. What happened at that time? --- As I have already said the Inkatha used to attack almost every day, but they were not successful. ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pietermaritzburg, Day 1

Finally, at the end of 1988, one had the infamous Trust Feeds massacre, which is a useful case study of the complex interaction between Security Forces, the Joint Management Centres which had been set up to control dissent and manage society. Trust Feeds is a small community, a rural community ...

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Submission (01 August 1996)

... Third Force had spread a trail of blood and terror through many Reef townships. On April 23rd, 1992, a milestone judgement was delivered in the Trust Feeds massacre trial: SAP Captain Brian Mitchell, who had been the head of the local JMC at the time of the 1988 massacre of eleven people, was ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Durban (28 August 1996)

... it was a massacre in a shebeen, such as happened up in Donnybrook; whether it was an attack on innocent children, like happened in Shoboshobani or Trust Feeds, it all comes down to the same thing. These sort of things are very obviously politically inspired, and they are intended to scare and ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pietermaritzburg

... is the man who has been named by ex-Captain Brian Mitchell of the South African Police as being the person who was in charge of orchestrating the Trust Feeds massacre. Captain Mitchell gave evidence in this city hall a few weeks ago when he was making his amnesty application, and he implicated ...

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Special Hearing, Cape Town, Day ONE - 12 MAY 1997

MR GOOSEN: Former SAP Captain, Brian Mitchell, who was convicted for his role in the Trust Feeds massacre claimed in his amnesty application that the Nationalist Government used the police to do its dirty work. According to evidence led in the trial the events leading to the massacre began with the ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Pietermaritzburg

... Captain Brian Mitchell has given evidence that there was a meeting which took place between himself, Major Terblanche and David Ntombela where the Trust Feeds massacre was planned. And that evidence has been given before this Commission. So, in those circumstances does it then come as a ...

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