FOUR YOUTHS

... Operation Zero Zero, to issue hand grenades to a number of young COSAS activists on the East Rand.1 0 2 As a result of this operation, seven youths were killed and eight severely injured when they attempted to detonate the hand grenades as instructed.103 c In 1987, Minister of Law and ...

... to the Commission’s Durban office for this period and over one-third of the total number of gross human rights violations reported for the thirty-four-year period of the Commission’s mandate. 280 The Commission has made a finding that members and supporters of the IFP were responsible, ...

them outside the hostel, at the back of the hostel and they started shooting at them. They were trying to chop them with some huge bush knives. 66 Fourteen-year-old Ms Winnie Makhubela, the child of Ms Mahlophe’s brother, was the only one of the three young women to survive. In her testimony, ...

ANC and the leadership of the mass movements must bear some general responsibility for atrocities that occurred in this period, committed usually by youths acting in the name of the liberation struggle. 94 When violence spilled over to those who were not ‘legitimate targets’ but who were ...

very high for MK guerrillas in urban areas, with few losses to the security forces; in rural encounters MK seemed to fare somewhat better. 147 The fourth type of activity involved the killing of individual security force personnel and people who were deemed to be ‘traitors’ or ‘enemy ...

... testified: They tortured me for those seven days and the only thing that really made me break in the end was when they threatened to ... kidnap my four-yearold nephew, Christopher, bring him to the 13th floor and drop him out the window … I felt I could risk my life and I could let my body ...

... it in the pump house of a mine bunker. 385 At a section 29 investigative hearing, Sergeant Joe Mamasela related how Mfalapitsa – picked up four youngsters and … he told them that … I am a taxi man that he hired. And then I drove them until Mfalapitsa … said stop here … Then he ...

... the Moutse villages of Moteti and Kgobokoane. In their effort to repel the invasion, Moutse residents killed a number of vigilantes. These included four Imbokodo members suspected of trying to abduct the Bantoane chief at the royal kraal in Kwarrielaagte, Moutse. Approximately 360 Moutse ...

... last seen in the custody of the security forces, as well as those forcibly and unlawfully abducted by other known or unknown parties. 44. Sixty-four people who were last known to have been in the custody of the security forces remain missing. While the majority of these disappearances ...

... with hand grenades and automatic rifles on the night of 28 November 1992, while a Christmas social function for a ‘wine club’ was in progress. Four people – Mr Ian MacDonald and Ms Rhoda MacDonald, Ms Gillian and Mr David Davies – were killed in the attack, and seventeen others injured. ...

... in Swayimane. Witnesses said that one white and three black men wearing light blue shirts similar to the SAP uniform carried out the killing. The four men were seen arriving at the home of KwaZulu MP Mr Psychology Ndlovu in a yellow police van and then proceeding from Ndlovu’s home in a white ...

... appointed after calls for a judicial commission of enquiry, recommended that police be prosecuted. No action was taken. 38 On 19 April 1990, five youths were killed during a march at Viljoenskroon in the Orange Free State. The police gave orders to disperse, but it is alleged that, before the ...

... and the football club have been extremely controversial. The activities of the club, which culminated in the abduction and assault of youths and the subsequent events of January and February 1989, resulted in the prosecution and conviction of Madikizela-Mandela and three associates, ...

... to disband the club is inexplicable. 94 Ms Madikizela-Mandela denied in her testimony that there was a close relationship between her and the youths who lived on or frequented her property. However, the testimony of former MUFC members, and of individuals who tried to dissuade her from this ...

Rand. The hand grenades were to be used in operations against the state. However, the timing devices had been tampered with, which resulted in seven youths being killed and eight severely injured. In addition, a young woman who was suspected of being an informer was ‘necklaced’48, making her ...

... WERE UNFOUNDED AND FALSE, AND THAT RICHARDSON HIMSELF WAS A POLICE INFORMER. THE COMMISSION FINDS THAT MR JERRY RICHARDSON’S VERSION THAT THE YOUTHS WERE HELD AT THE MANDELA HOME FOR A PERIOD OF TWELVE OR MORE DAYS IS CONSISTENT WITH OTHER ABDUCTIONS IN THE SAME PERIOD UNDER REVIEW. ...

... the past. Mr Patrick Baleka was accordingly granted amnesty [AC/2001/021]. PAC/ANC conflict 247. The Amnesty Committee received applications from four PAC members relating to offences committed in the course of localised conflict between members of the PAC and the ANC. 248. PAC member Sonnyboy ...

made by women and men in each age group. Most statements were made by those aged thirty-seven and above, with men dominating the younger age groups (youths and young adults), and women in the majority in the middle-aged to elderly age groups. The reason for this pattern is explained by looking at ...