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431 Mr Makompo Lucky Kutumela [JB00511/02NPPTB; JB04847/99OVE], a twenty-sixyear-old journalist and AZAPO member, was beaten to death at Makopane police station in March 1986. He had apparently been detained because of articles he allegedly wrote, which implicated the police in murder. His death ...

399 The medicine murders evoked widespread anger in the homeland. Government officials were accused of mishandling the investigation and alleged perpetrators were reportedly granted bail and had charges against them withdrawn. Protest activities brought the homeland to a standstill for a brief ...

... relating to national unity and reconciliation were highlighted. Important aspects of reconciliation at a community level as well as the need for a deep, practical commitment by ordinary citizens to the reconciliation process were also emphasised. Towards national unity and reconciliation: ...

... with the government broke down. (Some view this move as the first time that the Afrikaans and English press were united in their opposition). Undeterred, Vorster persisted and, through threats, eventually achieved the desired effect: the NPU’s undertaking to include much of the legislation ...

... worked on preparing different aspects of the event. Not much statement taking had taken place prior to the hearing, and commissioners tried to identify the better known cases. The hearings acted as a public showcase of the kind of work in which the Commission would be involved. Some of the ...

Crackdown by the security forces 316 From 1985 the state, via its JMCs and its security forces, employed a dual strategy to maintain ‘law and order’ in Bonteheuwel. The first part was to upgrade the Bonteheuwel area; the second, the establishment of special Unrest Investigation Units to ...

by the powerless against other oppressed groups. Bishop Peter Storey expressed this succinctly in a Commission hearing into the activities of the Mandela United Football Club: The primary cancer … will always be the apartheid oppression, but the secondary infection has touched many of ...

... Mr Motidi Ntshekang (aka ‘Ghost’) and Mr David Ntombela, a Mozambican security guard, were forcibly taken to South Africa. The Mozambican was detained for over two years before being released and returned to Mozambique. Ntshekang became an askari but was later imprisoned for murdering his ...

... Mr Moffat Kasana, was also severely beaten with a stick [KZN/AT/010/FS]. 127 Vigilante action surged again in Thabong in 1986, when parents and elders launched a violent attempt to get children back to school. The council, which had by this time set up an official law enforcement unit, was said ...

The ‘Kwandebele Nine’ 92. On the night of 15 July 1986, just two weeks after the killing of the ‘ N i e t v e rdiend Ten’, nine youths were shot dead and their bodies set alight in a house in Kwandebele.4 2 The youths had been expecting Constable Joe Mamasela, who had offered to provide ...

... and five others were also killed during arrests. A further three died as a result of torture or assault43 and four w e re killed during their detention or on their release . Abductions/disappearances 106. Evidence from amnesty applications and hearings reveals that the Security Forces ...

... Petronella. The inquest magistrate found in 1989 that it was possible that David Ntombela and five others “were in some way responsible for the deaths”. To this day, the case has not gone to trial. 171 On 31 January 1988, David Ntombela was among a number of people who addressed a large ...

Forced recruitment 391 The Commission heard that during the 1990s, with violence now endemic in many communities, men were often required to attend night ‘camps’, to participate in patrols and to attend all political gatherings convened by the party in whose stronghold they resided. People ...

Hit-squad Activity 293 Hit-squad activity became widespread in KwaZulu and Natal during the 1990s. From information received by the Commission, it would appear that the hit-squad operations undertaken by the ‘Caprivi trainees’ and other political networks were predominantly supportive of the ...

Self-defence units (SDUs) 365 Substantial evidence placed before the Commission points to the fact that Mr Sifiso Nkabinde, the person responsible for the establishment of one of the largest self-defence units in the country, was recruited by the SAP Security Branch in 1988 as a registered ...

167. In August 1980, Captain Dirk Coetzee was appointed commander of Vlakplaas. Under his command, C1/Vlakplaas members were drawn into other operational tasks, both within and outside South Africa. Coetzee and two black Vlakplaas operatives applied for amnesty for a number of operations. 168. ...

Self-defence units and weapons supply 253. The most senior ANC applications received in respect of this region relate to the provision of weapons and training of SDUs by three ANC leadership figures. Mr Jeff Radebe [AM7170/97], Mr Ian Phillips [AM5951/97] and Mr Sipho Sithole [AM5950/97] served on ...

IUS IN BELLO AND IUS AD BELLUM 17. The ANC also criticised the Commission for failing to deal adequately with the fact that the apartheid state acted in breach of the Geneva Conventions and the Additional Protocols. According to this view, the actions that the state considered to be legitimate ...

... FIVE ChapterS I X Holding the Right-Wing Groups Accountable ■ INTRODUCTION 1. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (the Commission) made findings against right-wing opposition groups in its Final Report.79 These findings were based on the evidence and testimony it received. This ...

13 The evidence available to the Commission suggests that most district surgeons were not directly involved in committing gross violations of human rights during the period under review. Their most common offence was a failure to carry out their duties within internationally accepted guidelines ...