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Wynberg Seven

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Seven school students were arrested during student protests in Wynberg, Cape Town, in 1985 and were charged and convicted of public violence for which they served prison terms of one to two years. The highly publicised trial drew attention to the thousands of students and youth sentenced to prison terms for public violence, effectively criminalising protest activity.

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... Julian, good afternoon, welcome to you. Thank you for coming here today. You were also a member of the group which has come to be known as the Wynberg Seven and before I facilitate your evidence I will ask Mary Burton to swear you ...
MS DICKS: Okay. I was one of the Wynberg, I am one of the Wynberg Seven. My name is Dee Dicks and 12 years ago on the 15th of October 1985 is when my story begins. Prior to that day, like the school, all schools were involved in boycotts so going to school was attending rallies at various ...
... wit a gun of 9mm calibre and/or other firearms, without holding a valid license to posses such gun or firearm) during July 1993 in the district of Wynberg and/or in the district of Mitchell's Plain ...
After the funeral, I received a letter from Wynberg, the police from Wynberg brought this summons and they gave me the date to appear in Court and then on that particular date I went to court in Wynberg. I don’t know who shot my son, I sat there and then I waited for my name to be called. And ...
... Province Sub JMC, or Joint Management System, hereafter called the S-JMC which served the Peninsular's four police districts, namely Cape Town, Wynberg, Bellville and Athlone. The S-JMC during this particular period, was under the chairmanship of a senior police officer and a deputy ...
already - we had already forgotten about this, we were told that there is going to be an inquests. We were told that it is going to last for a month. So we went to Wynberg. We kept on going to Wynberg about this because we are going to this inquest.
MR HENDRIKSE: Thank you very much Madam Chair. I was appointed as a public prosecutor in the Wynberg magisterial district in the Cape in 1987 where I served for approximately only one year. There were three different matters which arose during my term of office. The first one related to my refusal ...
MRS MATLANA: The letter that I got was from the mortuary. I took it and the death certificate I found it from Wynberg police station. We used to go there to fetch birth certificates. May you please excuse me, I would like to say that the clothes which my son was wearing at the time he left my ...
After the funeral policemen or investigating officer came to my place. I don't remember. He said that I was needed at Wynberg. I went to Wynberg on that particular day. When I got to Wynberg I thought that there was going to be a court case and I sat there until my name was called. When I got ...
... Cape Command on a permanent basis. The charges which I face,relate to the events at the St James Church in 3rd Avenue, Kenilworth in theDistrict of Wynberg, on Sunday, the 25th of July, 1993. At the time, I was 17years old. I have submitted an application for amnesty in terms of Section 18of the ...
... 1986, we estimate that in excess of 60 000 people lost goods through arson and had their homes burnt down. According to the inquest records at the Wynberg court, at least 57 not 56 as it states there, at least 57 people were killed in the vicinity of Old Crossroads, its satellite camps being ...
MR SIBAYA: Wynberg/Constantia route.
All that I heard is that the UDF arranged for us to get a lawyer Mr Moosa from Athlone. Twice he told us to come to Wynberg, there was just a small little room. He called us there and said this case was postponed the first time. The second time Mr Moosa called us again and he said Ms Paulsen ...
... had been called. The court case continued at the Athlone court and it was adjourned. We were informed that it was going to be transferred to the Wynberg court and the date was put for the court hearing. It was the following week. ...
So of course I got to know Peter Moll when his time came and I attended his court martial at Wynberg. I got to know his parents and I attended his court martial, that is to say, outside of the court at the Castle. I corresponded with him over the years. This is Peter Moll's summary.
... the year 1986, it was on a Monday, on the 9th of June 1986. We woke up and went to work. I was working at Diep River and my husband was working at Wynberg. There were rumours that the people from Crossroads were going to enter into the area because there was conflict. We woke up. They didn't ...
My sister would try to encourage me, asking me not to blame the Lord, because his will had been done. The years went by, on the fourth year, if I am not mistaken, I was summoned to Wynberg. I had no clue what it was about. I then, at the bottom of the letter saw my son’s name.
I was also team Rector of the parish of Wynberg which has five churches and on another occasion that is the 9th of June, I had eight members of staff with me, five clergy and three full time lay people.
MR MABUZA: It was Wynberg.
I only saw it in the newspapers that it was him and I also saw him in Court as I was the first witness in the Court at Wynberg.
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