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NGQULUNGA, MAge Description ... in Pretoria (24 February to 7 March). Among the cases covered this week are the murders of Mafikeng bus driver Joe Tsele, Vlakplaas askari Brian Ngqulunga, MK commander Zweli Nyanda, ANC soldier Keith McFadden, Florence and Fabian Ribeiro and the torture of youth activist Scheepers Morudu. The ... ... in the newspaper. // Evidence was recently led in the Eugene de Kock case that he and his men killed the fourth member of the death squad. Brian Ngqulunga was shot dead in July 1990, because he wanted to confess to the Harms Commission. As more evidence emerged about police death squads, ... ‘Brian today we have come here, we have come to fetch you, we are coming to fetch you my husband. I’m taking you away from here today. I’m taking you to a mortuary. From the mortuary you’ll be going to your final resting place, your final resting place my husband because this was not your ... Brian Ngqulunga and other askaris murdered by Vlakplaas operatives Joe Mamasela. Joe Tsele’s sister was not the first witness before the Truth Commission to ask about this man who has admitted to being part of the killing of more than 30 activists. Mamasela was one of the black policemen at Vlakplaas called askaris. So was Brian Ngqulunga. On Monday morning the TRC leads the family of slain askari, Brian Ngqulunga to his gravesite at Vlakplaas, South Africa’s most notorious death farm. Ngqulunga was one of the black security policemen who lived and died in the dirty sinister world of Vlakplaas. He was part of the team that brutally ... It is a fact that it is a place that has always been a source of great injury in my heart and my heart is always sore when I’ve got to come here. And I’m quite thrilled about the fact that possibly this is the last time that I will put my feet on this terrible and horrible place. Police however say it was either a robbery or Mxenge was killed by the ANC in an internal strife. For eight years his murder remained a mystery, until November 1989 when a former commander of the police anti-terrorist unit at Vlakplaas lifted the lid on police death squads. ‘I murdered Mxenge’, ... ... bosses when suspicion arose that he was working for the ANC. It was also the time of the Harms Commission and Vlakplaas suspected that Brian Ngqulunga might not be prepared to cooperate with the police cover-up. The trouble however began when Brian Ngqulunga asked Eugene de Kock for a ... One of the men selected to kill Brian Ngqulunga was this man, Captain Wouter Mentz. // We put on the balaclavas and ran to the car. We went to Ngqulunga who was sitting on the left of the vehicle. We dragged him out of the vehicle, we wrestled with him a bit and in the wrestling I remember very ... Brian Ngqulunga was a frail, pathetic looking person, human being. He took him, he beat him up and when Brian lost consciousness he picked him up, he threw him up in the sky and when Brian landed with this certain thud, he jumped. You know, if you know De Kock, he’s a big guy with a big torso. He ... Alfred Nkosi // Emmanuel Mzimela // Phila Ndwandwe // Bheki Mkwanasi // Oupa Lukhele // Blessing Ninela // Pumezo Nxiweni // Ntombi Kubheka // Brian Ngqulunga // Robert Mokoena // 12 Unidentified bodies exhumed in ... ... and they would refuse to participate. It means that it’s a negative element who might spill the beans later, and would end up like Brian Ngqulunga did in the end, in his grave. ... squad operations investigated by the Harms Commission in 1990. He was present when security police top command ordered the murder of policeman Brian Ngqulunga because of fear that he might talk. Whenever Vlakplaas murdered, he was the man who destroyed the incriminating evidence. As De Kock’s ... ... was the one applicant who showed signs of emotional distress while testifying. After being part of the murder of fellow Vlakplaas policeman, Brian Ngqulunga he was ordered to attend the funeral. I simply couldn’t bring myself to attend the funeral, it was too much for me and I just couldn’t ... On the evening of the 19th of November 1981 hit squad members David Tshikalanga, Almond Nofemela, Joe Mamasela and Brian Ngqulunga followed Mxenge home from work, took a short cut and waited for him to arrive. They pretended to have a problem with their car. When Mxenge offered to help them they ... Human rights lawyer and United Democratic Front activist, Griffiths Mxenge was killed by three askaris: Almond Nofemela, David Tshikalanga and the late Brian Ngqulunga. Dirk Coetzee and David Tshikalanga were convicted for the killing. Both have been granted amnesty. On the night of the19th Joe Mamasela, Brian Ngqulunga, David Tshikalanga and Almond Nofemela watched Griffiths Mxenge leave his office late in the evening. // He then drove ahead of us and we followed him. When we got to his house, we actually used another route and we got there first, before him. ... |