TSHABALALA, Boy

Lolo’s friend and neighbour, Sibuniso Tshabalala was abducted only hours later. // I asked Sibuniso myself, ‘what do you know about Winnie?’ But Sibuniso was one boy who was quiet and he said to me, ‘mom, I don’t know that much.’ And l asked him, ‘when they come here, what are you ...

In October last year we told you the story of six East Rand COSAS activists who blew themselves up with booby trapped hand grenades supplied by Joe Mamasela. That led to the harrowing necklacing of Maki Skosana after their funeral. The Truth Commission hearing in Duduza paid tribute to Skosana last ...

... killing of a security policeman. According to Fivaz, Richardson wanted his money before he would talk about his part in the killings of Sono and ...

June 26, 1986. Shortly after midnight a group of 13 ANC activists launches a hand grenade attack on the house of a policeman on the East Rand. The grenades and the limpet mine explode in their faces. Six activists and two innocent bystanders die. The story has been told by its executioner. // De ...

... // Then National Police Commissioner, George Fivaz took the stand. Fivaz was questioned as to why Winnie has not been prosecuted in the Sono, Tshabalala, Seipei and Asvat affairs. He said that up to now there has been insufficient evidence to bring her to ...

... kidnapping, vicious assaults and eight brutal murders. The dead people are: Vincent Sefako, Susan Maripa, Stompie Seipei, Lolo Sono, Sibuniso Tshabalala, Finki Msomi, Koekie Zwane Miya, Abubaker Asvat. Every single one of these murdered people had some connection with the struggle against ...

... that police shot and then blew up ANC member Blessing Ninela. Likewise, the Tugela river shows no indication of the fate of Charles Ndaba and Mbuso Tshabalala – Operation Vula members who were murdered and their pockets filled with rocks before their corpses were thrown into the ...

14 March this year. A farm in Kwazulu-Natal. The rich soil is turned endlessly, but the furious digging and scooping, digging and scooping is not to prepare the land for harvest, it is to unearth some of the secrets of the past: bodies, skeletal remains of ANC activists, thought to have ...

From Monday I have been listening with my open ears trying to tolerate what was happening, but from today nothing has been done. That is injustice, today, there is no justice in that. When other people ask questions there are harsh answers to them but when she speaks nobody’s putting pressure on ...

... thrown in unmarked graves in KwaZulu-Natal. At the same time we have heard of the deaths of two others who had disappeared, Charles Ndaba and Mbuso Tshabalala - members of Operation Vula, the ANC’s ambitious strategy to create an underground military network inside the country. But there are no ...

A number of other murders in the tax were blamed on the Mandela United Football Club. Sibuniso, son of Nomsa Tshabalala, disappeared around the same time as Lolo Sono. Jerry Richardson says he took part in Sibuniso’s murder which was ordered by Madikizela-Mandela.

a certain place where certain pointings out were made? // And he told me that there’s a plantation and there was this mineshaft and Lolo Sono, Sbu Tshabalala, a certain guy from Zola - a guy who disappeared from Zola and Koekie Zwane - a certain young girl who was Zindzi’s friend is inside … ...

Numsa Tshabalala and Nicodemus Sono accused Madikizela-Mandela of being responsible for the disappearance and likely murder of their sons. Nicodumus Sono says the last time he saw his son was in November 1988 in the presence of Madikizela-Mandela. It is not the first time he begged ...

... and in Queenstown (22 to 24 July) and the Amnesty Committee hearings held in Kroonstad (22 to 24 July). From Soweto we hear Lolo Sono and Sibuniso Tshabalala?s parents? testimonies on the abduction of their children in 1988 ? implicating Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and the Mandela United Football ...

... 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 ...

‘Mndeni ka Bheki Tekere Mkwanazi, mndeni ka Mbovane Dion Cele Mzimela, mndeni ka Mbuso Tshabalala, mndeni ka Charles Ndaba, sinithwesa izimphahla zegwalagwala.’ To the families our message is, we share your sorrow, we share your rage and we share your pride. Know that South Africans for ...

... and another man shot and killed Julia Buthelezi. The aftermath of the massacre left a tally of ten butchered bodies. One of the youths, Vuyani Tshabalala, survived the bullets and the hacking. He is yet to tell his story to the Committee. Ntjebo Ndondolo is said to have fled to the Transkei. ...

... Unit? - Phila Ndwandwe, Bheki Mkwanazi and Mbova Mzimela - exhumed from unmarked graves and members of ?Operation Vula? - Charles Ndaba and Mbuso Tshabalala - whose bodies were disposed of in the Tugela River. The segment includes interviews with relatives of MK commander Phila Ndwandwe. In ...

... - 4 December). MUFC ?coach? Jerry Richardson testified that he was ordered by Madikizela-Mandela to kill Stompie Seipei, Koekie Zwane, Sibuniso Tshabalala and Lolo Sono and confirmed allegations that he was a police informer. Dr Abubaker Asvat?s killers testified that Madikizela--Mandela paid ...

Numsa Tshabalala says her son Sibuniso disappeared shortly after Lolo Sono. // Then he said, if you say Lolo was taken by Winnie Madikizela’s people then probably I will be taken there as well. And we left for work, when we came back Sibuniso was not at home. When Sibuniso had gone, that is after ...