MABENA, Ben

I found my brother. It was somewhere in the forest, there was nobody around. I looked at him and he was dead. I tried to turn him to see; I could see that all his bones were broken.

If you follow the politics of South Africa it is said that a black man won’t rule and by ‘black on black violence,’ as they were calling it, when they clash one would assume that how are they going to rule themselves when they clash like this?

Number 176 is the first house which was built in Tembisa around 1962, 1963. This is the first shop in Tembisa; it used to be called Verwoerd Wares. The name changed around 1977. This used to be a building where we were, an administration building. We used to pay rent here. These are the result of ...

After I’ve seen these people I suspected that those were the people who might have killed my brother. They were not alone, they were with some other people from another section at Vusimusi, it was an Inkatha section.

They pulled this child by the foot and they hit the child against the wall and she cracked her skull. // After I’ve seen these people I suspected that those were the people who might have killed my brother. They were not alone. They were with some other people from another section at Vusimuzi; it ...

that time, there after I was started to be beaten by those Mbokodo youth brigades. But firstly I started to being punched by this man who’s called Mabena. He was one of the bodyguards of the ministers, mister Piet Ntuli. And then I was beaten by those people and they were having pick axes. Some ...

It was during 1986, I was working with my contacts from Botswana and Kenya. One of my contacts by the name of Ata Mabena, he was a person that used to visit in Botswana. One day I met him at a place where we used to meet at the border. He gave me information that he met one ANC member who told him ...

Tembisa lies north of Kempton Park. Community leader Tim Mabena says it was established for people who had been removed from Alexandra, Irene, Verwoerdburg and Kempton Park. Tembisa also became a home to many migrant workers who lived in the hostels.

Let’s move to Cape Town for the last evidence by the five policemen whose amnesty applications have served before the Truth Commission’s Amnesty Committee the last few weeks. Together, they killed at least 65 people in the name of the apartheid state. We’ll tell you about 21 of these murders ...