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THE CITIZEN Thursday 22 April 1999

TRC wrong on Boipatong: Rian MalanCitizen Reporter

A L T H O U G H A N C politicians alleged dial the Boipatong massacre wascarried out by “third force” police and sol­diers, these allegations fa iled to stand up either in court or in the W ad- dington or G oldstone inquiries, or indeed dur­ing the Truth and R e­con c ilia tio n C om m is­sio n ’s ow n hearings.

Nevertheless the truth commission’s report sim­ply regurgitates the origi­nal allegations and pre­sents them as fact.

This emerges from a major article on the June 1992 Boipatong massacre, written by Rian Malan in the latest edition o f Fron­tiers of Freedom, the quar­terly journal o f the South African Institute of Race Relations.

The massacre, in which Zulu residents o f the Kwa- Madala Hostel fell on Boi­patong and slaughtered some 45 men, women and children, is invariably

cited as the cause of the breakdown o f the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codcsa) negotiations.

But this, says Malan, is untrue. “The talks actually died a month earlier, as die result o f a deadlock deliberately engineered by Cyril Ramaphosa,” then secretary-general o f the ANC.

“At the time, the ANC was pushing for majority rule while the National Party held out for checks and balances,” writes Ma­lan. “The twain could not meet, so the ANC dccidcd to force a stalemate and return to mass action.”

• But township response “fell painfully short” of the massive Leipzig-style demonstrations ANC mili­tants had envisaged, Malan says. The spark that rekindled passions in South Africa and abroad was the Boipatong mas­sacre.

“Before Boipatong, F W de Klerk was riding high,” writes Malan,

“bouyed up by his referen­dum victory and his rising status in the eyes o f for­eigners.

After Boipatong, he was just another racist,” held responsible worldwide for the massacre.

By September 1992 De Klerk and his negotiators were so deflated “that thpy just caved in,” says Malan. They made “extraordinary concessions” to get negoti­ations going again, aban­doning all hope of federal­ism and eventually sctding for vastly diluted constitu­tional protections for mi­norities.

This raises the question o f whether the ANC’s ver­sion o f the massacre - a version that radically changed the course of the negotiations - is indeed the correct one.

Malan shows how vari­ous investigations over the past seven years failed to come up with any credible evidence to corroborate al­legations o f police and ar­my complicity in the mas­sacre. Foremost among

these was a marathon 1993 trial during which the state called some 120 Boipa­tong residents - someone from almost every house where death or serious in­jury was recorded. “Not one," says Malan, saw police vehicles assisting the attackers, or claimed that whites were present.

This accorded with the evidence o f five accom­plices who agreed to testi­fy against fellow hostcl- dwellers in return for im­munity. To a man, they refuted charges o f police complicity, and dismissed reports about the participa­tion o f masked white gun­men as “infamous lies.”

In addition, writes Ma­lan, each o f the 14 convict­ed self-confessed killer s who has thus far testified at amnesty hearings has described the attack as a Zulu affair, driven by ven­geance in the face of per­sistent attacks.

They, too, have strongly denied colluding with po­lice or “Third Force” ele­ments.

And yet, says Malan, midway through the am­nesty proceedings, the Truth Commission came forth with a finding that baldly declared Boipatong a “Third Force” operation. The massacre, said the commission’s October re­port, was “planned and carried out” by hostel dwellers in collusion with security forces, who were said to have ferried the Inkatha impi into battie in Casspirs. A lso deemed true were sightings of “white men with black­ened faces” among the attackers.

Malan set out to estab­lish the basis for these findings, and arrived at some startling conclu­sions. There was no inves­tigation o f the massacre per se, he writes, and hence, no new evidence to shore up the commission’s pronouncements, or justify the reversal o f earlier ver­dicts. Instead, says Malan, the truth commission sim­ply accepted “phantasma­

goric” accusations made by ANC-aligncd sources in the massacre’s con­fused and emotion- charged aftermath.

Indeed, a large chunk of the report was copied word-for-word from a June 1992 “Area Repression Report” pub­lished by the ANC-sup- porting Human Rights Commission.

“These ancient and lar­gely discredited charges,” Malan writes, were simply adopted as fact, with Or- wellian consequences for the Boipatong amnesty applicants. They are enti­tled to amnesty only if they tell the truth, but “the truth” has already been been established - largely without inquiry, says Ma­lan - by the body diat holds their fate in its hands.

When hearings resume on May 3, the Boipatong amnesty committee will hear evidence that belat­edly attempts to validate

the Truth Commission’s findings of collusion and conspiracy. Notorious IFP gunfighter Victor “Vaal Monster” Kheswa will be portrayed as a massacre ringleader, but Malan has unearthed documentary proof that Kheswa was in emergency detention at the time. Ex-Murder and Robbery Squad Sergeant Pedro Peens, who is alleged to have paid Kheswa and provided “four to six” Casspirs, has dismissed the new claims as “absurd.”

“M y research,” says Malan, “raises serious questions about the TRC’s adherence to its own founding legislation, which calls for even-hand­ed evaluation of conten­tious claims. The commis­sion’s Boipatong finding - which was at best pre­mature, and at worst, flat wrong - disregarded this principle almost entirely. And the result will be with us, in Archbishop Tutu’s phrase, ‘for generations.’”

Police ‘face daily misconduct charges’CAPE TOWN. - South “I think the public is police brutality by mem- issued in February Africa’s police, reeling getting confident now bers o f llic Johannesburg showed complaints after a television docu- about the IC'D and coniiii|> l-'lvini* S«|ii:i<l. rrrriviNl in«Ii* I licit

Informer ‘didn’t know bomb was in minibus’

A POLICE informer did not know that the bomb that killed three people in an explosion in Bots­wana in 1987 had beennlinlril iii |ii- ri t

drcn, aged seven years old and nine months, who died when the car bomb exploded in a residential area of Gaborone on April '» I'lKV

Lekhotla Pule and Lester Dumakudc, in Gaborone where they would place the weapons in the minibus.

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S T A T E M E N T S ( U W OK

ABRAHAM THELETSANE 12 MOSHOESHOE STREETAt 9.45 pm Wednesday night I heard shots, I looked out and saw black and white men in camouflage uniforms. A white had a gun and a black had a walkie talkie. This was in Moshoeshoe St. The police moved up and down and the comrades ran to Makabane school.H ie police cleared the comrades. Behind the police where men in white "doeks" and having pangas.

NO NAME GIVENI punched off duty just before 10.00 pm. As I was coming to enter the township I saw two hippos (brown camouflage). About 10 (ten) men came out of each hippo. They saw me and I ran back to the company Cape Gate.

MOSES MATEBELA 172 SEKHUKHUNE STREETI work for Metal Box. On Wednesday ±10 pm I was watching T V. I heard a sound of hippo or casspir. I looked through the front window and saw men coming out of the hippo. They had something white around their heads. There were ±10 dressed in camouflage. ±20 men with the white band around the head, these were carrying spears, axes and guns (look like A-K47). The police (camouflage) had long guns. Police and men broke into 170 (next door) and took things like the TV set (neighbour told Moses this the next day). Then the corner (diagonally opposite) house was attacked and the windows broken.

My uncle’s house was also attacked

When they were hitting the corner house they were joined by camouflage dressed people and others with the white head band.

At my uncle’s house they took radio and struck a 22 year old with a spear and also injured the tenant. The hippo shone its lights onto the house.

The people from Cape Gate had been chased back to the company. The street directly leading from Cape Gate into the township used by the workers could be seen because the floodlight of the hippo lit the street up.

I could also hear the sounds of gun shot.

My friend Hlubi 722 Mofokeng St, his child was killed.

The hippo (dark - camouflage) moved along with the attackers giving them light.

I also heard a story from a young girl that men had some kind of paint (dark - black) on their faces and that they spoke in Afrikaans.

At 1.05 am the ambulances came for the injured, the hippo also came and stood still then moved of at 1.15 am.

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GEORGE MOLOKANE 544 BAFOKENG STREET PHONE (016) 88-2440My house was attacked ±10.30 pm. I was in bed, and heard people breaking windows, chopping doors and then my house was attacked.I asked "what do you want" they said "money". They spoke in Zulu saying "USUTHU". Some had red head bands and others had white head bands. They held spears and one held a gun at me. I gave them R195. I asked "why are you doing this? I’ve been working with you for so long". I got hit on the back in the ribs with the back of the axe before I gave the money.My children were in other rooms. They speared and attacked my children and my daughter-in-law. Daughter-in-law MIRIAM MOLOKANE is in Ward 17 Sebokeng Hospital. Daughter Alicia was stabbed in the back, was treated at hospital but is now home. My younger son 9 years was kicked.The house was in darkness, the attackers put the lights on. i saw the hippo only when it came to pick up the injured people. When the attackers left I attended to the injured and then phoned (Sebokeng Hospital) for an ambulance. The ambulance came quickly in ± 1/2 hour.

ELIZABETH RAMOELETSI 11 JOE SLOVO PARKMy husband is Simon he was killed. We were asleep simon woke me up and said "we must run away". As we opened the door we saw a group of people, I couldn’t see well as I was running. I went through a hole in the fence. They shot at me three times I pretended to be dead - they went away. I returned to the shack and called my husband Simon. When I found him I could see he was hurt, then I saw he was dead. My husband was stabbed.

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JOHANNES MBATHA NO 8 JOE SLOVO PARKI am the younger brother of Mr Mbatha (deceased). In our house we were sleeping and woke up because we heard breaking of our windows. I looked out and saw 3 groups of men. One group was busy hitting the shacks (they had white head bands and white bands on their arms), they saw me and attacked the house saying "Get out Mandela’s dogs", they seemed to move off. I peeped through a hole in the wall of the shack and saw a group of men wearing mid-thigh dark lumber jackets. It seemed the head was covered I could not see their faces. The men with the white bands saw me and told (in Zulu) the men with the jackets that this house must be attended to, "all in this house must be killed". The men with the jackets surrounded the house while the others broke the door. They came in it was dark. My wife hid under the bed and I hid behind a cupboard. They called for matches and looking around they saw my wife."Mgwaze" (stab) they said. They proceeded to stab my wife. They went to the cupboard and tried to open it. I held very tight on the back of the cupboard so they would not find me. They took the radio and some clothes and then left. After ±15 minutes I came out from the cupboard and went to look at my wife to see how she was. I pulled her out from under the bed and she screamed for help. I went next door and as I was going I saw the men (attackers) going to two (2) hippos (camouflage). The men entered these hippos. The indicator lights of the hippos were going on and off like making signals for the men.I went to ask a neighbour to phone the ambulance. It was some local place and they said the ambulance was not available as it had gone to fetch some drunks. We phoned the Sebokeng Hospital. The ambulance came very quickly and then the hippos moved off.I helped my wife into the ambulance and got in also. We watched the hippos going in the direction of the Kwa Madala hostel as we drove to the Sebokeng Hospital. My wife Pauline Mbatha is in Ward 18.

MISHRACK THEOANE NO 31 JOE SLOVO PARKI work at the TREK Garage at the robot cross-road leading into Boipatong. I was on duty from 7.45 pm - 6 am (17/18 June 1992). When I arrived at work all was quiet and normal. A t ±9.15 pm I saw a hippo (camouflage) army vehicle with men (soldiers) standing up in it. TTiey were white men. These vehicles moved into Boipatong. I then heard shooting and noise and people running. The patrol units were setting up barricades and warming themselves by fires. There were more shots coming from different areas. The hippos came back to the garage and parked for ±5 minutes. Many men mostly wearing white head bands and holding what seemed like sticks and spears objects were coming very quietly in the distance. The vehicles had the chance to see these men coming. I told one of the army men "look here come the men". There was no response or reply from the man I spoke to. The security man at the garage then phoned his senior security. The senior security came in a van and the police (white) in the hippo advised the senior security to take them (junior security and Mishrack) to Baldwins (a company further away).

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Before I had spoken to the army man I had pressed the alarm bell which registers in the Vanderbijlpark police station. The police came after 10-15 minutes. I told them about the men coming but they did nothing and left.I stayed only ±25 minutes at Baldwins after having been advised by the Senior Security to stay the nightI returned to the garage and saw ambulances coming in to Boipatong. This could have been about 10.30 pm.

SIMON BLAAI NO 39 JOE SLOVO PARKI was asleep and was awakened by woman screaming. I thought she was being beaten by her man/husband. I went out to help. When I came out I saw four men throwing a baby onto the floor (ground). Three men had dark jackets (knee length), the other man had a blanket around him. All had white head bands and white clothes on their weapons. I immediately knew this was not husband. I returned into the house and looked through the door. I saw ±10 men coming towards me and the house (shack), I went to the back of the house. These men went passed my house. I continued to watch and saw a man standing at the back of the house next to mine he was standing still and fixing the gun. I saw the back of his neck and hair. It was a white man. He had a blanket on. I ran away and they chased me into the veld. I hid there for ±one hour. I then went back. When I passed house No 81 I saw the woman lying in the house and the baby child outside, the baby was dead, could have been hit in the head. This was the Matupe family.I was then going to phone for an ambulance, but one arrived. This is strange as when people need ambulances it never comes. People have to take their sick to the outside road to m eet the ambulance there.

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South African Defence Force

1. George Gideon Marks.

Constable in SAP, stationed in car-theft unit in Vereeniging. Driving VW-fox on 17 June. Heard reports on the radio; talked to petrol-attendent at garage. Moved south in direction of Vanderbijlpark and reorted situation on radio. Stopped at corner Delfos Boulevard and F.M. Boulevard and blocked the traffic. Was joined by two SAP Vanderbijlpark patrol-vehicles and one SADF- vehicle: a Buffel.

2 Phafodi Samson Khanye.

Driver of the Municipal Casspir from Sebokeng. Received message at 22h10 to move to Boipatong. On his way there he saw a brown "weermag voertuig" and a light coloured "weermag bakkie" (SADF) at the robot near Uniepark motors, (paragraph 8) After driving around Boipatong it was decided to move to Kwa-Madala, via the Trek garage. At the robot he met "een bruin voertuig en een ligkleurig bakkie" of the SADF. (same?) One of the men from his Casspir talked to them. Were told that a large group of man had been seen crossing F.M. Boulevard towards hostel. Moved to hostel with SADF-vehicles. Members of SADF "het ons meegedeel dat daar niemand te bespeur is nie en dat ons kan ontrek". (paragraphs 13-16)

3 Daniel Ranthole Lesibo

On pa/tol in a yellow police bakkie. Boarded the municipal Casspir mentioned above. Confirms having met two SADF-vehiles at the intersection F.M. Boulevard and Noble Boulevard, (paragraph 8). Not clear from his statement if SADF-vehicles moved to Kwa-Madala with them.

4 Jappie Fannie Maseko

Sergeant in SAP, stationed at Boipatong Municipal Police. Boarded the Municipal Casspir driven by Khanye. Made an order in the Casspir to go and look for attackers. In Noble Boulevard they turned left in direction of Uniepark Motors. At traffic light near Uniepark Motors they met a Buffel of SADF. (Maseko does not mention another SADF vehicle) He communicated withe them and together they moved to hostel, (paragraph 7) (-> Are they all talking about the same traffic lights where they met the SADF?)

5 Thinus Lodewikus Steyn

Iskor Security guard. After radio reports he moved to Kwa-Madala. Met two

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Buffels of SADF there, around 23h00. (paragraph 6). Moved to Iskor- kwekery opposite Unipark Motors, to see if there were any people moving arround. Met two Buffels. Together they moved into veld East of Kwa- Madala, 23h07. SADF members began patrolling the veld. (8 & 9) One man was found, (paragraph 12/13.) Contacted the SADF after a while and asked them to move into veld from F.M boulevard. They didn't want to, they threw teargas into the area. No signs of people. He ordered his "reaksiemag- lede" to continue seaching the area. He then went back to his office together with SADF and the one person that they did find the area. (16 & 17)

6 Auke Compaan

Iskor Securuity. Patrolled the area around the Eastern fence to protect Iskor property if necessary. Found the man mentioned by Steyn. Confirms that there were two SADF vehicles with the Iskor "reaksie-eenheid" and which fired two teargas bombs, (page 3)

7 Albertus Arnoldus de Jager

Does not mention SADF

8 Wendel Wilken

Tried to get to Cape Gate at 21h50. Turned around when he saw 200 - 300 men. Tried again at 23h00; "Ek het toe geen swartes opgemerk nie. Ek het vanaf my huis tot by die werk ook geen polisievoetuie of weermagvoertuie gesien nie".

9 Christoffel Jacobus Fourie

Misdaadvoorkoming Vereeniging, radio control room.

10 Willem Jacobus Crous

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11 Nicolaas Cornelius Viljoen

Security guard at Cape Gate. Rceived the calls from Wilken and de Jager. Whilst on the phone with de Jager he saw a SADF vehicle pass by. He followed it, caught up with it at Unipark and told him what he heard from

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Wilken and de Jager. (paragraph 5)

12 Aubrey Hunter

Electrician at Cape Gate. Could not leave his shift because Wilken could not relieve him at 22h00. When he finally could leave, he found his keys were locked inside his locker. Because of this he left after the others of his shift had already gone. On his way out he saw no SAP nor SADF vehicles. He was not escorted by SADF armoured vehicles.

13 Johannes Willem Havenga

Cape Gate worker. Was allowed to leave at circa 23h30. There was a Buffel at the gate which told them everything was safe. Another SADF-vehicle (Buffel) at corner Uniepark Motors. Near the "toetsgronde" on F.M. Boulevard he noticed another SADF Buffel.

14 Joseph Lumkile MgCina

Employed at Cape Gate, not on duty on night of 17th. Was woken up by a stone that fell on his roof. A few minutes later windows in his house were broken. Tried to get out of the house with his wife, through the back door. He managed to escape, but was stabbed by a "spies". Ran to Cape Gate, saw a SADF-vehicle (beige bakkie) in Noble Boulevard. Asked for help, but they said they could not go into the area and that the SAP was on it's way. SADF moved on in direction of garage, (paragraph 7) Ran further to Cape Gate. His injury was treated, and he decided to go back and look for his wife. Up to this time he still hadn't seen any SAP. He found his wife lying in the street; dead.

15 Ishmael Mahasella

Time and attendance clerk at Cape Gate, on duty on the 17th. Someone told him that there was trouble, he asked for permission to leave early; granted. Together with others he gathered at the main gate. They stayed there for + /- 10 minutes, during which they saw a SADF-vehicle (Toyota van) pass by. Did not speak to them. They tied to move into Boipatong, but shots were fired at them and so they all ran back to Cape Gate. Minutes later the same SADF-vehicle passed again going in opposite direction. They shouted for help and the vehicle stopped. Six SADF members in uniform, who told them that their vehicle was not bullet proof and that they wouldn't accompany them into the township. The SADF members also spoke to the injured man that came running out of Boipatong - MgCina. SADF did nothing to help him, but instead proceeded into direcrion of Kwa-Madala. It returned

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minutes later with an SADf armoured vehicle. The driver of this vehicle, Mr Pienaar, got out and argued with them about whether or not anything was going on in the township. He also said that SADF could not arrest anyone, only take people out of the township. He then escorted the white workers, who travelled in their cars, out of the area. He followed them in the Buffel which had 8 to 10 other SADF members inside. (Claims both Hunter and Havinga were amongst those escorted out of area; Hunter states differently.)Adv. Mostert states on page 322 (line 2 and further) that evidence of members of the Vaal Commando largely supports Mahasella's evidence. It is only denied that Pienaar spoke to him. Ak- <\ /u,/ / £

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NEED: COUNSELLORGEORGE MOLOKANE 544 BAFOKENG STREET.BOIPOLONG

TEL: 882440

On Wednesday at about 10.30 p.m. I was sleeping when I was woken to hear my door being chopped and my windows broken. Men then en­tered my house.I got up and saw many black men wearing either red or white headbands.There were so many I couldn't count them. They spoke in Zulu.|One put a gun against me and another hit me with the back of an axe in the ribs. They said the wanted money, money, money. I gave them R195. Meanwhile the others were searching my house.I shouted at them "Why are you Zulus doing this when I have worked with you?" One immediately said "Ho Lets go!".They all left and I rushed in to see how my family was. I found my daughter in law Miriam very badly wounded she had been stabbed and is now in hospital in a critical condition. My daughter Alicia was stabbed in the back. She is home now after she was stitched in the hospital. The other members of my family were OK except for my little son of 9 years who had been kicked.When I looked through the windows I saw about 200 attackers.I phoned Sebokeng Hospital for an ambulance which came about a half an hour later.Miriam is in Ward 17.

HUSBAND:(SIMON)DEAD NEEDS: COUNSELLOR

ELIZABETH: RAMOELETSI 97 JOE SL0V0 SQUATTER CAMP

On Wednesday night at about 10 p.m. Simon woke me and said we must get out of the house and run away that the Zulus were coming. As we opened the door we saw a group of people standing in the yard. I did not have a good look at them as I was running. Simon ran toward the shack. I went through a hole in the fence. They shot at me 3 times. I fell on the ground and pretended I was dead.When they left I went back to the shack and I called out to my husband Simon. He called back but it was a very weak response. I went to him and found that he had been stabbed. He then died.

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STATEMENTS FROM MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA

RE : BOIPATONG MASSACRE - WHAT THEY SAM &. HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY ANDWITNESSES

1. ALLISTE/R SPARKS

2. PETER DE IONNO

3. MATHATHA TSEDU

LOUISE GUBB

5. SOPHIE TEMA

A. JOHN CARLIN

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7. JOVIAL RANTAU

8. SYDNEY MAFILIKA

9. KENOSI MODISANE

10. MFANASIBILI NKOSI

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DETAILS OF VICTIMS OF THE ATTACKSLQVQ PARKNO. 81 Victims no longer occupying this shackNo. 91 Simon Moloi (Wife - pregrant killed) - not in.No. 97 Died inside shack

Maria Ramaletsi (53) mother Simon Ramaletsi (32) sonMARIA RAMALETSIStabbed under left breastLeaft side of private partsStabbed both left and right lower legsChop mark (panga) on forehead.SIMON RAMALETSISeveral stab marks on chest and backChop mark on the chinChopped all over head (panga).Dog was also chopped in the stomach.DAMAGEPanga mark through steel bath

No. 131 Jonas Mbatha (+/- 45)Liza Mbatha (+/- 45)Poppie Mbatha (4)JONAS MBATHAChopped right top of leg near groin Chgopped on top of head Shot right thigh.LIZA MBATHAStabbed in chest and chopped on the neck.POPPIE MBATHAPoppie was on Liza Mbatha's back at the time of the attack. Stabbed through the temple (not sure if knife/spear entered left/right temple). Chopped back of head as well.DAMAGEFront door - tried to smash it.

No. 135 Elizabeth Ndamane (85)Stabbed in stomach - exit wound in back

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(1 dead - not home)(2 dead - family not at home)Solomon Malindi (40)Elizabeth Maldini (35)Franscina Malindi (10 - injured)Agnes Malindi (4)SOLOMON MALTNDTStabbed in chest and back — 6 wound altogether. Three in the back, three in the chest. One wound went through chest exited back.ELIZABETH MALINDILeft shoulder, two stab wounds in left arm (possibly spear).FRANSCINA MALINDI flO - INJURED^Both thighs were stabbed - three times with a spear. AGNES MALINDIPassed away on 18/6/92 in hospital.Stabbed three times - lower back. Stomach ripped open with a spear.DAMAGESmashed unit and windows and two dressing tables were smashed and door.Pule Thomas Lekabe (36)Mirriam Mdete (36) (injured)Mita Mdete (3) (injured).PULE THOMAS LEKABEStabbed in the back (not sure whether left or right side). Three bullet wound upper back, wound on head, nor sure if that was stabbing/shot.MITA MDETEChopped on the head - still in hospital. Sebokeng Ward3.MIRRIAM MDETELeft lower arm hit with panga, while tryin to protect Mita. (Mirriam has had an operation on arm) .Right breast and cheek stabbed with a sharp instrument.

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No.No.No.No.

No.No.No.No.No.No.No.No.

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HAMAH F.

T (66cm- colour) stolen from No. 19, but belonged to people of No. 17.4 steelpots stolen Wardrobe damaged Windows smashed Door is broken.

13 I found cartridge (shotgun) in front of this shack.9 Smashed windows5 Smashed windows1 Smashed windows

Caravan (no numberOne person kiled (Nobody at caravan)Johannes Khoza - neighbours believed he was stabbed with spears over whole body.

2 Smashed windows - radio stolen 4 Smashed windows6 Door damages (pieces of wood chopped out)8 Smashed windows14 Smashed windows16 Smashed windows28 Smashed windows38 Smashed windows

Cartridge found in passage near No.30

Shack opposite 42 no number Michael Mnyila (32)Shot through shack wall while sleeping Right top leg. Bullet came through window hit left side of head. (Holes can be seen through wall - pictures available).

No. 4 6 Jeremiah Lata (17) Julia Lata (12) Samuel Ncokoto (45)

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No. 48 No. 50 No. 62 No. 74 No. 76 No. 104 No. 102 No. 96 BAKQENA No. 179

No. 165

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JEREMIAH T.ATAShot left side of chest.JULY LATAShot right side of chest S A M U E L N C O K O T O

Shot in stomach - also right thigh.SAM LATA (56 - INJURED^Left hand small finger and one next to it - (bullet wound)Windows smashedSmashed windowsSmashed windowsSmashed windowsSmashed windowsSmashed windowsSmashed windowsSmashed windowsSmashed windows

STREETWindows smashed (small window pan on riqht side (front).Masetai - front windows smashed back windscreen kombi NCVG 088TMirror inside house damaged and curtain cabinet (all damaged by bullets).Mr. Setai (881733) (Phone No)Claims short white man claiming to be from ANC (NEC).He gave no name or number, despite being asked. Visit came on the 19th June 1992. White man said he need the information for NEC Meeting at 4p.m on the 19th June 1992. The white man was with two black men. White man also asked if an identity card belonging to the police was found. Mr. Setai said no police I.D. was found on his property. The white man knew Mr. Setai by name.

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No. 163 Smashed window (front)No. 159 Smashed windowNo. 157 Smashed windowNo. 153 Smashed windowNo. 151 Smashed windowNo. 147 Smashed windowNo. 145 Smashed windowNo. 125 Smashed windowNo. 139 Smashed windowNo. 137 Smashed windowNo. 133 Smashed windowNo. 131 Smashed windowNo. 129 Smashed windowMOSHOESHOE STREETNo. 40 Smashed windowsNo. 686 Smashed windowsNo. 1205 Smashed windowsNo. 684 Smashed windowsNo. 1193 Dick Mokoena injured -

torso and left hand (shNo. 672 Smashed windowsNo. 668 Smashed windowsNo. 1185 Smashed windowsNo. 666 Annah Sebatai (48)

Percival Sebatai (28)ANNAH SABATAIStabbed right shoulder and upper right arm - also stabbed spinal cord.

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PERCIVAL SABATATLeft side of face ripped off (possible shotgun). Left side stabbed just above groin. Father showed bag of teeth with shotgun pellets in it) .Windows damaged and front door.

No. 1187 Nellie killed (63)Dorothy Yuba (22) injured.NELLI YUBABoth upper thighs stabbed with sharp instrument. SHOT right upper chest possibly 3 times.DOROTHY YUBANeck (right side) chopped with a panga. RIgt hand chopped with a panga. Millde of back chopped with a panga.Windows smashed and doors smashed.

No. 1181 Front windows damaged.

No. 1179 Windows smashed.

No. 664 Windows smashedNo. 662 Windows smashedNo. 660 Benjamin Mosoetsa (51)

Samuel Mosoetsa (23)BENJAMIN MOSOETSALower back right side (shot)7 stab wounds right side.SAMUEL MOSOETSAShot right side of nick and stabbed in the stomach, both on right and left side.

No. 1112 Damage to windowLEKOA STREETNo.nil Windows damagedNo. l i i o Maria Dlamini (21)

Paulina Dlamini (70) Fiorina Dlamini (injured)

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M A R IA DT.AMTNT

Right hand side above breast stabbed twice.PAULINA DLAMTNT Stabbed in the stomach.ELQRINA DLAMTNT Stabbed in right thigh.D A M A G E S

2 Wardrobes damaged.TV smashedStole glasses and cups Windows smashedRoom divider's glass in cabinet smashed.

No. 1109 Windows smashedNo. 761 Flora Mashope (65

Flora Nkala (46)(Not sure if stabbed or shot, only found them at mortuary).Fence damaged by caspir Windows smashed.

BARLONG STREETNo. 659 Windows smashedNo. 658 Windows smashedNo. 656 Windows smashedNo. 663 Windows smashedNo. 685 Windows smashedNo. 62 Windows smashedMAJOLA STREETNo. 43 Windows smashedNO. 116 Windows smashedNO. 118 Windows smashedNo. 45 Belina Lerobane (62)

Four holes in the neck (front)

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Stab wound righ side under breast.Stab wound between breasts (xxxxxxxxxx) Right shoulder blade stab wound Back of neck stab wound Back of head stab woundSTOLEN Car radio Video playerTV was broken / phone and Hi-Fi smashedClock smashedFoot on wardrobe brokenPlates/cups smashed

No. 114 Windows smashedNo. 49 Windows smashedNo. 51 Windows smashedNo. 110 Windows smashedNo. 108 Windows smashedNo. 55 Windows smashedNo. 57 Windows smashedNo. 102 Windows smashedNo. 104 Windows smashedNo. 59 Windows smashedNo. 61 Windows smashedNo. 63 Windows smashedNo. 98 Windows smashedNo. 65 Windows smashedNo. 96 Windows smashedNo. 69 Windows smashedNo. 92 Windows smashedNo. 94 Windows smashed

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Collection Number: AK2672 Goldstone Commission BOIPATONG ENQUIRY Records 1990-1999 PUBLISHER: Publisher:- Historical Papers, University of the Witwatersrand Location:- Johannesburg ©2012

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