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Special Report Transcript Episode 52, Section 2, Time 02:40The first wave of horror came in May 1986. Over three days the ‘fathers,’ or witdoeke systematically burned three satellite squatter camps around Crossroads to the ground. The security forces then stepped in. They encircled the area with barbed wire to prevent the 30 000 left homeless by the attack from reoccupying the land. Lukhanyiso Finye and Vuyani Dyaboza were two of the 38 people left dead in the wake of the destruction. The young men and four friends were on their way to a Saturday night party when they were stopped by a witdoek barricade, abducted and killed. Their parents found them in a mortuary. Notes: Crossroads violence; Satellite camps burning References select each tab to search for references Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims GlossaryWitdoeke in the Western Cape 587 The attacks launched by witdoeke in the western Cape resulted in the deaths of over sixty people and the destruction of the homes of over 60 000 people in May and June 1986. The Commission uncovered a trail of covert official endorsement of the witdoeke (see ... Vigilantes and Inter-Group Conflicts: Contra-mobilisation 242 The state’s strategy of contra-mobilisation sought both to build anti-liberation movement forces by covert means and to foster divisions within communities. In the Western Cape, the social divisions between the more ... |