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... he “jumped out of a window” on the sixth floor. j Mr George Botha [EC1587/97PLZ] died in security police custody in Port Elizabeth on 15 December 1976, allegedly “suicide through jumping down a stairwell” of the Sanlam Building, the offices of the Port Elizabeth Security Branch ...

... GRANDMOTHER MS EVELINA DE BRUIN TO BE EXCESSIVELY HARSH EVEN WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE LEGISLATION AT THE TIME. Phillipstown 165 On 21 December 1985 Ms Sophie Butele [CT00513] was shot dead by policeman Silingo Tshemese in Phillipstown. Several members of the Tshemese family worked ...

were male, ranging in age from fifteen to sixty-one. A press report from the time indicates that a twelfth person may also have died26 . 202 On 13 December, eleven people were buried at a mass funeral in Mlungisi township, attended by thousands. In response to questions in Parliament over a year ...

... that was being waged on a local level all over the PWV. 671 The labour dispute in Ratanda led to ongoing conflict in the area between July and December 1992, including attacks on homes and the petrol-bombing of buses taking workers to and from work. Violence peaked in August, a month ...

... said he learnt later that Musa had tipped off the police about the intended attack. Khayelitsha railway station attack 72. In the early hours of 5 December 1992, four APLA operatives, including Mr Andile Shiceka [AM5939/97] and Mr Walter Falibango Thanda [AM5784/97], attacked the Khayelitsha ...

of the ANC security department alleged to be responsible for ill-treatment of detainees was submitted to ANC president Mr Nelson Mandela. 116 On 2 December 1992, Amnesty International published a report of its own research into human rights violations by the ANC in exile. It found that the ...

... the following cases police claimed death from natural causes: a Mr Mzukisi Melvin Nobadula [EC0662/96PLZ] died in detention in Port Elizabeth in December 1977. His brother identified his body in the mortuary and saw that there were scars, burn marks and blood on it. At the post mortem, ...

... for Steve Biko in Uitenhage. They were later charged with holding an illegal gathering and some were severely assaulted in custody. 230 On 24 December, UDF leader Mr Edgar Ngoyi was released on bail. He met with Reverend Maqina and they made an agreement in terms of which the hundred AZAPO ...

Makhwenkwe Ngweventsha [EC1264/96SBR] told the Commission: I was transported in a helicopter because of the seriousness of the injury … Later, in December 1992, I managed to remove the bullet on my own as it was moving inside my body. 392 In the chaos, it was sometimes difficult to ...

... careless” by causing civilian casualties. Amanzimtoti Bombing Five people were killed and over sixty injured in a bomb explosion on 23 December 1985 in a shopping centre at the upper South Coast seaside town of Amanzimtoti. The limpet mine had been placed in a refuse bin outside the ...