ROBERT, K

We were over 60 in number I don’t remember exactly however, we grouped into two. The others had to attack one of the homesteads nearby. // We started… we hit the door, there was a hew in the door and we used it to hack the door. The door opened and we shot at the people and we also stabbed them ...

Umkhonto we Sizwe soldier Robert McBride was given three death sentences for planting the bomb. After four years on death row he was reprieved and in 1991 given amnesty. He is now a diplomat at the Department of Foreign Affairs. This made the sisters of one of those killed in the Why not Bar, ...

... State regions. What has become known as the Magoo?s Bar bombing is covered, including testimonies from victims and an interview with the MK bomber Robert McBride. Relatives of victims of the 1985 Maseru raid by Vlakplaas operatives give testimony, as well as relatives of victims from the ...

This week, the mother of Robert Beech told the Truth Commission in Benoni that this was just one of many Defence Force lies. Robert was awarded a Pro Patria Medal and an accompanying letter stated that he would not have received it had the mission been unauthorized. In its submission to the Truth ...

On Friday we met with Robert McBride in the gardens of the Union Buildings where he now works. // This particular operation cannot be seen in isolation to what the state was doing. It was after a period of a number of cross-border raids in which men, women and children, mostly not even members of ...

Alright, can I have a question from Robert Brand first, from The Star? // Our country’s full of people like PW Botha and Adriaan Vlok and Johan van der Merwe who are going to apply for amnesty. If these people get amnesty, and a lot of people remain in public positions, government jobs, get state ...

... On June 14 in 1986 a powerful car bomb exploded at the Why not Bar, also known as Magoo’s in Durban. Three patrons died and 67 were injured. Robert McBride had placed the bomb. Zharah Narkedien was involved in reconnaissance and ...

I spoke to Capt van Zyl. I believe after all the years that it took place in my office. At that stage I also spoke to Capt Niewoudt and explained to them what the problem was that we were faced with. I can just mention that Mr. Niewoudt and Mr. Van Zyl at that stage were completely aware of the ...

the cleanup operation before four in the morning and then that evening it was four special constables and myself. // Who gave you the instruction to kill? Was that Major Terreblanche? // Yes the orders came from him that these comrades must be taken out. The whole operation went wrong, where the ...

... its independence in 1980. That is the official version, yet in 1982 three white South African soldiers died on Zimbabwean soil. The SADF had a quick explanation, but could it have been a smoke screen for South African involvement in the Matebele land uprising in the early ...

I am sincerely sorry. I know that I can’t really say anything, that it is sad for you but I am also very sorry. // You are not sorry; it’s just that you are brave to ask this of us. But it’s up to you to forgive yourself. // Oh! My son! // I went to pay for the pregnancy damages my son did ...

The battle between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party has torn communities apart. Richmond in KwaZulu-Natal is one of many regions that bear terrible scars of the continuing conflict. This week, IFP perpetrators and ANC families met face to face at an amnesty hearing in Pietermaritzburg. The ...

... but it’s also a dishonour, because violence is something unreasonable. I read once that violence is the lowest form of human behaviour. Actually, Robert was very emotional after that incident, contrary to what the people have made him out to be, and OK what he’s made himself out to be. This ...

... you should take responsibility for your actions.’ // ‘You know what I say, let’s start with a clean slate. Let’s forgive everybody. If Robert McBride can be in Parliament as a MP, why not just scratch everything and let’s start as a country ...

Will the information those files contain solve the many mysteries that remain. Will we ever know who killed Robert Smit, who shot down Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski or Ric Turner? Will we learn about the forces responsible for the brutal train violence that claimed hundreds of lives, or township ...

In October Hoare sent his brother in law, Robert Sims to establish a safe house on the Seychelles. Dolinschek arrived in Mahé on November 14th, two weeks ahead of D day.

Martin Dolinschek stuck to his story until Robert Sims was brought in. // The door opened and Sims walks in and he said to me I told them everything, the game is over. So I told them.

Nightmares of the past came back to haunt the Truth Commission this week and several world known personalities, such as Winnie Mandela and Robert McBride. Sitting in Durban the Truth Commission hearings reminded South Africans that atrocities and human rights violations were not the monopoly of the ...

Two years later activists again gathered at a grave, this time to lay to rest Robert Waterwitch and Coline Williams. But the victims of Bonteheuwel’s violent confrontation with apartheid are not only the ones lying in Cape Town’s graveyards. For every martyr there are many many more grappling ...

On June 23rd 1991 Mduduzi Gumbi and Robert ‘Vo’ Zuma were part of a group of heavily armed IFP supporters who attacked the pro-ANC village of Indaleni. Both men are serving long sentences for murder and attempted murder. Their amnesty application was partly heard last year. This week Gumbi and ...