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unbanningExplanation MR WAGENER: Your tasks and you, this is now the old Vlakplaas members, that is now in March 1991, what did this entail? This is now a year after the unbanning of the ANC. ... release from custody upon his return to the country. Applicant then joined the MK unit under the command of Kevin Mosepele. This followed the unbanning of the ANC as well as the collapse of the political system in Russia which was one of the principal countries funding the ANC. MK units ... MRS VAN DER WALT: You also had knowledge of their unbanning when they became legal Organisations, and what then happened? With the unbanning of the ANC and SACP and MK, it was the task of an interim group to re-establish open public branches of the ANC in these various communities. It wasn't simply a case of ANC branches just popping up everywhere, they had to be organised in a particular way. "refused to help us. The refused only because of the statements I made against the system, and for calling for the release of Mandela and the unbanning of the ANC and other banned organisations. We want to know the person who planted this bomb. He must tell us why he did so. He must tell us why ... ... 1984 when he joined the South African Youth Congress which was a predecessor of the African National Congress Youth League ("ANCYL"). After the unbanning of the ANC and during 1991, he joined the ANCYL. The political membership of the Applicant was duly confirmed by the ANC Truth and ... MS MAYA: Since you knew that your brother was in the ANC did you attempt at all, after the unbanning of the organisation, to try and establish where your brother was and what happened to him? ... that you have played a prominent role in the anti-apartheid struggle and I am sure that during the dark days of apartheid, perhaps, even after the unbanning of the ANC, there must have been times when you thought that you were at risk of being killed during the course of the struggle and I am ... ... Africa: On 2 February 1990 I made announcements that opened the road to inclusive constitutional negotiations. These announcements included the unbanning of the ANC, the SACP and other organisations and the release of prisoners, including Mr Mandela. ... MR SELEPE: From the unbanning of the ANC and before that I was a member of the UDF. ... Self Defence Units, emanated from the policy positions of the ANC and its allies, and if one can just mention a few, that even before 1990, the unbanning of the ANC, there was violence in many parts of Natal as it was then called. So the ANC Headquarters in Lusaka had always took resolutions ... further: On 2 February 1990 I made announcements that opened the road to inclusive constitutional negotiations. These announcements included the unbanning of the ANC, the SACP and other organisations and the release of prisoners, including Mr Nelson Mandela. During the following months and ... reasonable and to listen and to apply and to listen to the demands of our liberation movement that the release of our leaders who are in prison, the unbanning of our organisations are the priority and at the need for this country to have harmony. It was along those lines that I felt, I thought of ... MRS TIYA: Someday, some people from the Goza family came in and saying he was wanted, he was then taken to Court and it was said that the case was withdrawn against him and it was just after the unbanning of the Organisations. All the Political Organisations. MR ZWANE: Yes, that is correct. Initially we didn't have knowledge, I think it was about 1990 shortly after the unbanning of the ANC, we thought that when we went to ANC, should I say Chris Hani himself being a soldier, he might be in the position to help us with firearms, and he then explained to ... ... it's in the remote area. The police then were, in fact all government servants were forced to join that party but then immediately after the unbanning of the ANC, the very same leaders of that ruling party which was the government then, aligned themselves to the ANC which would be seen as ... ... that he was in exile because there was no news about him, it was all quiet, then some kids, Vuku kids who were in exile, they came after the unbanning and all those who had children who were in exile, were called. I was one of ... ... it was a feeling amongst the youth that for us to be counted as the freedom fighters, because at that time it was during the time of the unbanning of political parties, during that time I cannot say we were members as here in the rural area there was not that political awareness that ... MR BOOYENS: You say you can’t remember the date, but relative to Mr de Klerk’s unbanning of the ANC and other organisations? During 1990, at a general meeting of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) a decision was taken to hold a picket calling for the unbanning of the ANC. As the Education Officer of NUSAS, the applicant participated in the picket. |
