UWUSA

Madam Chair, I also specifically wish to refer to an incident which is set out in paragraph 15, concerning his involvement with the organisation, Uwusa, and attacks in this capacity on the organisation Fawu.

This is now UWUSA.

... Chair, it is my submission that as far as this particular motive is concerned, it is clearly established in that with reference to the two unions, UWUSA and FAWU involved, I think it was also to some extent corroborated by the applicant, although she said she was not a member of any political ...

MR RADITAPOLE: Let's take it a bit broader. Are you familiar with the formation of UWUSA?

MS MSIBI: I didn't know that we were going to be attacked but when the firms started we were given two choices to join unions and the white guy agreed that we should join one union. We didn't want to join Uwusa, we decided to join Fawu.

MR NDUMO: UWUSA, I was a member to that.

(Inaudible) ... before the troubles really started, and that was that in May of 1986, as you've told us in your statement, UWUSA was formed. Can you continue from there and just tell us that. --- Okay. In that meeting people who were left behind decided that they will

MR BELLINGAN: Mr Chairman, we already had inherited one major project which was the Uwusa matter, so we were the caretakers of that project at that stage.

... indicated that this person was problematic in his area, because this person would make sure that the drivers were divided into two. There was this UWUSA group that was in loggerheads with COSATU. UWUSA itself was formed by Inkatha, formed by Chief Mangosuthu so that if a driver belonged to ...

The conflict between NUMSA and UWUSA was a part of the politick conflict that raged between the ANC and the IFP at that time. We are satisfied that the offence committed by the Applicant in storing the said firearms and ammunition at his house was an act committed with a political objective during ...

MR LUTHULI: At that time, I met other men from Prince Msheni, where they were staying. These men were members of the KwaZulu government or the legislature of KwaZulu and they had been sent to Durban to form a union UWUSA.

... at the time you were the Commissioner of Police but we all know that there was a union which was formed, The United Workers' Union of South Africa, UWUSA and that subsequent to its formation violence flared up between it and Cosatu and that there were revelations in the media that indeed UWUSA ...

In other words, Chairperson, we support UWUSA for example. We supported the National Students forum, which was a student organisation which was established on various campuses. In the two years that I spent with Stratcom, we were completely involved with labour projects and with projects which ...

... as at the Hlobane Mine, and there were certain elements who were not satisfied with the operations of the COSATU, and another organisation called UWUSA was made. That started in 1986, and many people died. That is when there was conflict between these two organisations, not because the ...

... application is concerned, the objectors have conceded that the incident occurred as a result of the conflict between the two Unions FAWU and UWUSA who were affiliated to the ANC and IFP respectively and that the incident arose as a result of a conflict between these political ...

MR MAVUSO: I've already explained that I knew Siphiwe through his brother who used to work at UWUSA's(?) offices, under IFP.

Gwala therefore worked together with the boers in the oppression of the black person, especially the ANC, Communist Party and COSATU members. I realised that as Gwala was a member of the Inkatha an UWUSA, he was an obstacle. I then had to get rid of him.

... you explained that at some point you went to Sasol and you were employed at Sasol and you did work, recruiting for the so-called Trade Union, UWUSA, will you explain that period briefly? It's not important to go into a lot of detail but will you explain briefly to the Committee that period ...

... were the broad national projects that I mentioned previously. The three projects which we had in fact taken over from Military Intelligence were Uwusa, which was the Inkatha trade union; the NSF, which was code-named at that stage "Babushka", and VAT, Victims Against Terrorism, which was ...

Look at the entirety of this history, UWUSA, how does UWUSA get established? Is it some workers who stand up and say we align politically to the IFP and therefore we are going to set up UWUSA in contradistinction to COSATU, no. It's the bloody State, sorry, sorry. They set this thing up and they do ...