FOUR YOUTHS

... April 1990 murder of Sam Chan and his family in Botswana; and a 1991 joint Vlakplaas operation that employed ex-Koevoet soldiers to attack and kill four alleged gun smugglers. The episode concludes with a segment on the former security policemen?s psychological ...

... with poet / journalist Sandile Dikeni who provides some background on this practice. The programme also profiles the killing of three Bongulethu youths by police and evidence on the brutality of Bongulethu kitskonstabels. The episode ends with Gen Leon Mellet, former spokesperson of the ...

The Bongulethu three: three youths shot dead by police

On the 27th of April 1993, exactly one year before our first national democratic elections Nohombile Mphambani was killed by these seven youths. They said she was a member of the ADM, supported the tribal system and she was part of a plan to assassinate ANC leaders. // We went to her house. They ...

... and the father of one of the youths, Alfred Buthelezi. Buthelezi, the SDU allege, had given the order to kill Blanco and was an IFP sympathizer. Four youths were set free and Thusanang Rikabe managed to escape. The other seven were taken from this shack in which they were held captive and ...

Winnie’s sting was now in full flow. Football club members were sent to abduct the youths from Verryn’s church on the 29th of December 1988. With the others, he was hustled through the house to rooms here in Winnie’s back courtyard. Among the youths was the 14 year old activist Stompie ...

Can you give us a reason why your policemen did not act regarding the abduction of either the four youths from the manse or of the two youths Lolo Sono and Sibuniso Tshabalala timeously? Can you give us a reason? // In that case it is negligence on the side of the public who knew but wouldn’t ...

The pre-emptive strike has been argued as a political motive before. Last year we heard the story of the Nietverdiend Ten. Again youths from Mamelodi allegedly asked for guerrilla training and again they died a gruesome death. Whether the Committee grants these men amnesty or not there will, ...

It is true that most of the witnesses who testified here were lying. As far as I am concerned Richardson was lying. As far as I am concerned the two youths who claim that I gave them money to kill Dr Asvat were lying. As far as I’m concerned Morgan’s ludicrous statements made before you here ...

According to Hechter the youths had already gone to KwaNdebele to escape harassment by the security police in Mamelodi. Mamasela knew where to find them. Mamasela took us to the address. Mamasela, Gouws and Oosthuizen then entered the house and the next moment I heard gunfire. It was organized, it ...

Soon after two youths entered the surgery and registered as patients. Two shots were fired. Four weeks after examining Stompie in this very same room, Dr Asvat laid dead on the floor. The funeral ceremonies were led by Dr Asvat’s elder brother, Ebrahim. Police swiftly said the motive for the ...

Two Zulu youths were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder.

One of the youths, Nicholas Dlamini has just issued a statement from prison confirming that Katiza Cebekhulu showed him Dr Asvat’s surgery and that Winnie Mandela hired him and an accomplice to assassinate the doctor. Our witnesses, Katiza Cebekhulu and Reggie Jana, say the opposite was true, ...

... why Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was given special treatment? But most critically, why did the police never follow up on the cases of the two killed youths Lolo Sono and Sibuniso Tshabalala? Why do the families of these two boys still have nothing to go on except their own ...

Within days two Zulu youths were brought here, to Winnie Mandela’s house. She asked they be shown the location of Dr Asvat’s surgery. Their guide was Katiza.

For youths like Wanda Mchacho Mabaso, whose family was wiped out during the East Rand violence, joining up together as boys and facing the conflict head on was the only solution.

... Eugene Marais had executed the attack. They wanted to kill black people in revenge for an attack on white pedestrians on the Durban beach front by youths wearing APLA t-shirts earlier that ...

... MK that is Umkhonto we Sizwe name of Mike to move around Mamelodi. He came to me one day and told me he was approached by some of the more militant youths who asked if he could not possibly organise for them to leave the country for ...

... Is it possible that Walus might get amnesty but Derby-Lewis not? Another question is whether the racial motive for the killing of Amy Biehl by PAC youths may now be accepted as a political motive by the Amnesty Committee? It will be fascinating to see how the Amnesty Committee handles cases like ...

was Paul Verryn. He was compassionate and widely loved. Verryn’s church, also in Soweto, provided a similar refuge to Winnie’s football club for youths fleeing the security police. // ‘… God bless Africa, guard her children, guide her leaders and give her ...