In Re : BOIPATONG MASSACRE of 17 JUNE 19 9 2 MEMORANDA

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

In Re : BOIPATONG MASSACRE of 17 JUNE 19 9 2 MEMORANDA THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY REGARDING THE PREVENTION OF PUBLIC VIOLENCF AND INTIMIDATION In Re : BOIPATONG MASSACRE OF 17 JUNE 19 9 2 MEMORANDA SUBMITTED ON BEHALF OF ANC (PWV) , ANC (VAAL) AND VAAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES Nicholls, Camhani*, Koopasammy & Pillay Attorneys al Law 23rd Floor Kine Contra 141 Commissioner Street Johannesburg 2001 P.O. Box 8694 Jchar,n»sbu'g 2000 Tel: 331-6913/10 331-6927/8/9/0 I H — TILE___C O M M I S S I O N ___QH___THE PREVENTION OF PUBLIC VIOLENCE RND IMTIMID&TIQN / / N^j/ IN RE : BOIPATONG MASSACRE / ' / / -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- k_________________________________ MEMORANDUM ON THE ONGOING VIOLENCE AND THE FAILURE BY THE SECURITY FORCES TO PREVENT THE VIOLENCE, PROTECT RESIDENTS AND BRING THE PERPETRATORS OF THE VIOLENCE TO JUSTICE 1. The massacre at Boipatong and Slovo Park on the night of 17 June 1992 is not an isolated incident, but is part of a pattern of violence which has been experienced in various parts of South Africa during the p a s t 2 y e a r s . 2. The pattern of violence is a matter of common knowledge I in South Africa and has been referred to in innumerable media reports dealing with particular incidents and accounts of violence, and is acknowledged by the Government, its security forces, and all political movements in South Africa. It was because of this pattern of violence that the Goldstone Commission was established. Various aspects of the violence have already been investigated by the Goldstone Commission and the nature and extent of the violence is known to members of the Commission from their own investigations. 3. Although press reports of events concerned with the violence may not always be accurate, and are often subj ect to disputes concerning the details of particular incidents and responsibility for them, these press reports provide convincing evidence of the nature and extent of the ongoing violence. In many instances allegations have been made and reported in the press (but denied by the security forces) that the security forces are either actively involved in the execution of the violence, or passively stood by and allowed it to h a p p e n . In this Memorandum 10 incidents have been chosen from a survey of press reports to illustrate a pattern of organised and premeditated attacks which occurred prior to the Boipatong Massacre, and which, in each instance resulted in multiple deaths, injuries and damage to property. Other incidents which occurred in the Vaal Triangle are referred to in the Memorandum dealing with the Vaal History. The description of the incidents has deliberately been kept brief, and certain disputed matters have been omitted. The descriptions provide sufficient information to identify the time, place and nature of the attack, as well as the allegations made concerning the groups responsible for the various a t t a c k s . - 3 - 5. The 10 incidents are as follows : - 5.1 ON THE 15TH AUGUST 1990, 24 people were killed in a pre-dawn attack at the Crossroads informal settlement in Katlehong. Residents reported that armed men arrived at the settlement and raided shacks, killing men and looting valuable items. (Ref : Sowetan 16/8/90; Citizen 16/8/90). 5 . 2 Q M ___T H E ___8 T H SEPTEMBER 1990. the Tladi informal settlement near Merafe Station in Soweto was attacked by a group of men during the night. It was reported that the group approached the settlement from the side of the railway line which borders the settlement and separates it from the nearby hostel. The attackers v'oreNred headbands and were armed with firearms and dangerous weapons, including pangas. Some deaths resulted from gunshot injuries, while others had been stabbed and hacked to death. Allegations were made that the attackers had numbered approximately 100, and were from the Inkatha controlled J - 4 - Meraf- Hostel. The official police reports stated chat 9 people died in this attack. (Ref : Press Reports : Citizen 10/9/90; Business Day 10/9/90; Sowetan 10/9/90). ON THE 12TH SEPTEMBER 1990, '25 workers were hacked to death at the Vusumuzi Hostel in Tembisa, during the early hours of the morning. They were attacked by a group of men who arrived at approximately OlhOO. Fifteen people were killed in the attack. (Ref : The Star 13/9/90; Business Day 13/9/90). QN THE 18TH NOVEMBER 1990 r 19 people were killed in an atack on the Zonkezizwe informal settlement on the East R a n d . Witnesses and victims of the attack allege that the uttackers were from the Kwesini Hostel in Katlehong. (Ref : Press Reports : Sunday Star 25/11/90; Sowetan 2 3 / 1 1 / 9 0 ) . - 5 - 5.5 ON THE 2CJH NOVEMBER 199Q, 11 people were killed ai.J 10 were injured at Mandela View informal settlement on the East Rand. The attack occurred at approximately 10:50p.m, when a group of approximately 150 men armed with pangas, knifes and firearms rampaged through the informal settlement. VN Prior to the attack, r<_ ~idents had received a tip off that an attack was imminent. (Ref : Citizen 28/11/90, Sowetan 28/11/90) . 5 . 6 ON THE 27TH MARCH 1991 f at approximately 4a.m approximately 20 armed men arrived at an all-night vigil in Alexandra for a violence victim, Mrs. Jane Ramakgola, and killed 15 people and injured 16. The <- assailants shot first with AK 47 rifles and then hacked people with pangas. Prior to the attack, the police had been asked to protect the house from attack during the vigil, and had given assurances that they would do so. 6 On the 4th Apiil 1991, Witwatersrand Police ^iason Officer, Col. Frans Malherbe, reported that 7 of the assailants had been arrested and would be charged. (Ref : Sowetan 5/4/91) Ultimately, five persons appeared in the Witwatersrand Supreme Court on the 14th October 1991, on charges of murder, attempted murder, house breaking, possession of firearms and ammunition. (Ref : City Press 14/10/91). On the 7th January 1992, one of the accused was acquitted. The case against the remaining four accused has been postponed to 10 August for judgement. (Ref : Citizen 17/1/92. ) 0 .8 i' ON THE 2STH APRIL 1991. 22 people were killed and several others were injured, when heavily armed Inkatha members, who had attended a funeral attacked residents at random after le_i\ing t h e Meadowlands Stadium, w h e r e services for Moses Khumalo were held. The men were carrying pangas, spears, axes, sharpened fence p o l e s , butcher knifes and guns. Prior to this event, the local civic association had approached the SAP to request protection and to request that they disarm the Inkatha members as they feared an attack by them. The SAP did not confis'-i.te a single weapon before, during or after the funeral and did nothing to prevent the Inkatha supporters rampaging through Soweto. No arrests were made in relation to this attack. (Ref : CASE report March 1992). Q N T S E ___1 2 T H M A Y ___1991, 27 people were killed and at least 3 0 injured and 112 shacks were burnt to the ground in a dawn attack by about 1 000 men at the informal settlement known as Swanieville, near Kagiso. Allegations were made that the attack lasted for about 2 hours and that the attackers all wore red headbands.^ The police are reported to have claimed that the reason - 8 - why they did not respond immediately to the attack was that the local riot squad members were changing shifts j-jgtween 5 1 15 and 5:30 am and that the first warning of violence was issued to them at 6 : 3 0 a . m . Almost 24 hours passed before the hostel was searched for weapons. (Ref : Document compiled by LHR, IBIIR and CALS). Maj. Ray Harrold of the South African Police is reported to have said : "to prevent the group of Zulus moving through Kagiso and thereby causing further possible incidents, the police escorted the group of Zulus via a detour back to the hostels. Meanwhile, it was found that 27 people had been killed and that 82 squatter huts had been burned at the squatter camp". (Ref : Citizen 13/5/91). Law and Order spokesman, Brig. Leon Mellet, when asked how the Swanieville Massacre could occur in a declared unrest area stated "We cannot stop the violence. We ) - 9 - cannot stop the killings. We can only control it". He further stated thct Swanieville and neighbouring Kagiso had been declared unrest areas after information was received that people were preparing for a "big fight". (Ref : Business Day 13/5/91). On the 9th February 1992, 12 men appeared in court on 29 counts of murder and were granted bail of R500,00 e a c h . (Ref : City Press 9/2/92). 5 . 1 0 O N the 13TH october 1991r 10 people were killed and 4 injured, when about 2 0 gunmen entered the Twelepele Bar Lounge and opened fire with AK 47's. The gunmen then •also opened fire on people in the street outside the tavern. Witnesses to the attack reported that the attack lasted about 45 minutes and after the attack the gunmen disappeared in 2 minibuses. SAP spokemen Lt. Col. Tienie Halgryn, sai- that the police had information that the killers had come from Merafe Hostel. (Ref : Sunday Times 14/10/91). Leaving aside the disputed allegations concerning police participation in the violence, or their standing by and allowing it to happen, there is overwhelming evidence that the security forces have, over a long period, persistently failed to protect communities in Black residential areas against violence, and in most instances, have failed to bring the perpetrators of the violence to justice.
Recommended publications
  • South·Africa in Transition
    POLITICS OF HOPE AND TERROR: South ·Africa in Transition Report on Violence in South Africa by an American Friends Service Committee Study Team November 1992 The American Friends Service Committee's concern over Southern Africa has grown out of over 60 years of relationships since the first visit by a representative of the organization. In 1982 the AFSC Board of Directors approved the release of a full length book, Challenge and Hope, as a statement of its views on South Africa. Since 1977 the AFSC has had a national Southern Africa educational program in its Peace Education Division. AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE 1501 Cherry Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 (215) 241-7000 AFSC REGIONAL OFFICES: Southeastern Region, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, 92 Piedmont Avenue, NE; Middle Atlantic Region, Baltimore, Maryland 21212, 4806 York Road; New England Region, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140, 2161 Massachusetts Avenue; Great Lakes Region, Chicago, Illinois 60605, 59 E. Van Buren Street, Suite 1400; North Central Region, Des Moines, Iowa 50312, 4211 Grand Avenue; New York Metropolitan Region, New York, New York 10003, 15 Rutherford Place; Pacific Southwest Region, Pasadena, California 91103, 980 N. Fair Oaks Avenue; Pacific Mountain Region, San Francisco, California 94121,2160 Lake Street; Pacific Northwest Region, Seattle, Washington 98105, 814 N.E. 40th Street. CONTENTS II THE AFSC DELEGATION 1 PREFACE III POLITICS OF HOPE AND TERROR: South Africa in Transition 1 THE BASIC VIOLENCE 2 ANALYZING THE VIOLENCE 5 THE HIDDEN HAND 7 RETALIATION 9 POLICE INVESTIGATIONS 11 LESSONS FROM THE BOIPATONG MASSACRE 12 HOMELAND VIOLENCE IN CISKEI AND KWAZULU 13 HOMELAND LEADERS BUTHELEZI AND GQOZO 16 CONCLUSION 19 RECOMMENDATIONS 20 ACRONYMS 21 TEAM INTERVIEWS AND MEETINGS 22 THE AFSC DELEGATION TO SOUTH AFRICA The American Friends Service Committee's Board of Directors approved a proposal in June 1992 for a delegation to visit South Africa to study the escalating violence there.
    [Show full text]
  • Sedibeng District Municipality Annual Report 2005-2006
    Sedibeng District Municipality Annual Report 2005-2006 Chapter 1 1.1 Foreword - Executive Mayor 1.2 Foreword - Municipal Manager Municipal elections were held in March 2006 during the year under review. Mayor Hlongwane was re-elected and there were certain changes in the political leadership. The elections led thereto that the mandate for the new term of office had to be attended to and included in the Integrated Development Plan to deliver on the mandate of the ruling party until 2014. The year under review was also characterized by significant institutional challenges, as the Municipal Manager and Chief Financial Officer were suspended in September 2005 and a significant number of senior managers were acting. Notwithstanding the abovementioned problems, the people acting as Executive Managers did everything within their powers to render an effective and efficient service to Sedibeng District Municipality’s stakeholders as can be seen from the reports that follow. The 2004/5 Annual Report, IDP and budgets were considered and approved timeously. Service delivery continued in respect of health care, emergency medical services, vehicle registration and licensing, disaster management, tourism promotion, local economic development, management of fresh produce market, management of heritage facilities Some of the highlights of the year included: Installation of CCTV cameras in Vereeniging CBD and Sebokeng; Hosting of agricultural summit in December 2005; Development of permanent Sharpeville Exhibition; Rollout of Novell software to improve Information Technology Services; and. Actions to resolve critical problems of air and water pollution through an intergovernmental action committee. We were privileged on 16th October 2005 to host the President at a Presidential Imbizo.
    [Show full text]
  • National Senior Certificate Grade 12
    This memorandum consists of 32 pages. NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE GRADE 12 HISTORY P2 EXEMPLAR 2014 MEMORANDUM MARKS: 150 This memorandum consists of 20 pages. Copyright reserved Please turn over History/P2 2 DBE/2014 NSC – Grade 12 Exemplar – Memorandum 1. SOURCE-BASED QUESTIONS 1.1 The following cognitive levels were used to develop source-based questions: COGNITIVE WEIGHTING OF HISTORICAL SKILLS LEVELS QUESTIONS Extract evidence from sources Selection and organisation of relevant 30% LEVEL 1 information from sources (15) Define historical concepts/terms Interpretation of evidence from sources 40% LEVEL 2 Explain information gathered from sources (20) Analyse evidence from sources Interpret and evaluate evidence from sources Engage with sources to determine its usefulness, reliability, bias and limitations 30% LEVEL 3 Compare and contrast interpretations and (15) perspectives presented in sources and draw independent conclusions 1.2 The information below indicates how source-based questions are assessed: In the marking of source-based questions, credit needs to be given to any other valid and relevant viewpoints, arguments, evidence or examples. In the allocation of marks, emphasis should be placed on how the requirements of the question have been addressed. In the marking guideline, the requirements of the question (skills that need to be addressed) as well as the level of the question are indicated in italics. 2. ESSAY QUESTIONS 2.1 The essay questions require candidates to: Be able to structure their argument in a logical and coherent manner. They need to select, organise and connect the relevant information so that they are able to present a reasonable sequence of facts or an effective argument to answer the question posed.
    [Show full text]
  • The Attrition of Rape Cases Through the Criminal Justice System in Gauteng
    Lisa Vetten, Rachel Jewkes, Romi Sigsworth, Nicola Christofides, Lizle Loots, Olivia Dunseith Tracking Justice: The Attrition of Rape Cases through the Criminal Justice System in Gauteng July 2008 Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre to End Violence Against Women (TLAC) Tel: +27 (11) 403-8230/4267, Fax: +27 (11) 403-4275 www.tlac.org.za South African Medical Research Council (MRC) Gender & Health Research Unit Tel: +27 (12) 339-8526, Fax +27 (12) 339-8582 www.mrc.ac.za Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) Tel: +27 (11) 403-5650, Fax: +27 (11) 339-6785 www.csvr.org.za To be cited as: Vetten, L., Jewkes, R., Sigsworth, R., Christofides, N., Loots, L. and Dunseith, O. 2008. Tracking Justice: The Attrition of Rape Cases Through the Criminal Justice System in Gauteng. Johannesburg: Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre, the South African Medical Research Council and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. Design and Illustration: Ellen Papciak-Rose (Soweto Spaza cc), www.ellenpapciakrose.com Lisa Vetten, TLAC Rachel Jewkes, MRC Romi Sigsworth, CSVR Nicola Christofides, MRC Lizle Loots, MRC Olivia Dunseith, TLAC figures and tables Figures 1 Rape in South Africa per province ������������������������������������������������������� 12 2 Stages in the investigation and prosecution of a rape complaint �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 15 3 Distribution of victims, by age ��������������������������������������������������������������� 29 4
    [Show full text]
  • BOIPATONG by Dave Steward, Chairman of the FW De Klerk Foundation
    BOIPATONG By Dave Steward, Chairman of the FW de Klerk Foundation On 17 June the EFF issued a statement to mark the 28th anniversary of the Boipatong massacre. It stated that the massacre had been orchestrated by “an Apartheid government led by FW de Klerk” who had “funded and supported the massacre in order to undermine negotiations…” I remember Boipatong. I was at the time head of the South African Communication Service (SACS). On 18 June I woke to the news of the awful event in which 45 residents of the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Boipatong had been brutally murdered. Boipatong was egregious ‐ even by the violent standards of the times. Women and babies were among the victims who were mercilessly hacked and stabbed to death. President De Klerk decided that he would visit the community to express his condolences to bereaved families the following Saturday ‐ 20 June. I was disturbed to hear an announcement of the visit on the SABC on Friday evening ‐ because it was not our practice to provide advance notice of visits to potentially sensitive areas. Our party assembled under the eggshell blue skies of a highveld winter at a police depot about 5 kms from Boipatong. SACS had made arrangements to transport members of the local and international media who wished to cover the event. We all climbed into an ancient bus and followed the presidential motorcade on its route to Boipatong. As we approached the township from the north‐ west, it became clear that my concerns about the early announcement of the visit were ominously warranted.
    [Show full text]
  • Steven Henry Dunga North West University, South Africa [email protected]
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITY STUDIES Vol 9, No 2, 2017 ISSN: 1309-8063 (Online) THE NEXUS OF FOOD AND HOUSING INSECURITY IN SOUTH AFRICA: THE CASE OF BOPHELONG AND SHARPEVILLE TOWNSHIPS Steven Henry Dunga North West University, South Africa [email protected] WCJ Grobler, North West University, South Africa [email protected] Abstract Considered a human right, housing and food security can be viewed as basic to what defines an individual’s well-being and is enshrined in the South African Constitution. In any country, affordable housing and food security are central to development to ensure an adequate healthy lifestyle. What makes the link between housing and food security important is that in a household with inadequate resources, housing and food security can be in a competing relationship and may even involve a trade-off between each other. Furthermore, food insecurity and housing insecurity are important components in poverty reduction policies. In this study, a random sample of 600 households was taken based on a quantitative research method. Two low income neighbourhoods were selected in the Emfuleni Municipal area in Southern Gauteng, South Africa. The relationship between food insecurity and housing insecurity was analysed using different statistical techniques. To measure food insecurity the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) developed by the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) was used, while a housing security measurement scale was developed. The research found that a trade-off exists between housing and food security and, in many cases, food insecurity and housing insecurity exist at the same time.
    [Show full text]
  • RELIGIOUS ACTION NETWORK for Justice and Peace in Southern Africa
    RELIGIOUS ACTION NETWORK for justice and peace in southern Africa a project of the American Committee on Africa ONE MORE MASSACRE by Aleah Bacquie "It seemed so absolutely unnecessary. If this is a taste of things to come, then God help us all." -John Hall, Chairperson Peace Committee God help us all indeed. Soldiers firing on unarmed peaceful demonstrators with no warning whatsoever is nothing new under the South African sun. (It was only last month that I wrote to you about the Boipatong Massacre.) Now, twenty-eight more are dead, 200 more wounded. The only fresh, but twisted slant comes from the "Gorbachevian" De Kierk, escort of the "New South Africa". You know the appalling statistics by now, nearly 8,000 people dead due to political violence since the "reformist" De Klerk began his bloody reign of terror, with tens of thousands more wounded, driven from their homes, gripped by hopelessness and fear. Complete denial of any South African governmental responsibility was expected, even though the soldiers who fired were under the command of a South African Defense Force Brigadier on loan to the "bantustan" Ciskei government. The South African government has long contended that the Black "bantustans" are independent governments, although they are not recognized by any other government, including the U.S. However, with hard evidence of government complicity mounting, De Klerk tried a new tactic, blaming the victim. He somehow mustered the gall to assert that the massacre of ANC supporters is the fault of the ANC! According to this disturbed logic, those Blacks who dared to exercise their right of peaceful assembly and protest are to blame because they should have known that Pretoria's puppet, Oupa Gqozo, would fire on the marchers.
    [Show full text]
  • The Dead Zone
    FEATURE / THE DEAD ZONE In Susan Sontag’s seminal book, On Photography, Sontag writes that the “industrialisation of camera technology only carried out a promise inherent in photography from its very beginning: to democratise all experiences by translating them into images.” Since the The Dead Zone dawn of photography and the development of the first cameras in the early 1840s, taking photographs has been a way of both certifying and refusing experience – memorialising Regarding democracy through Greg Marinovich’s photography and restating symbolically; limiting reality to a search for the aesthetic. By Ellen Agnew Somersault, Soweto, 1993. African National Congress and Communist Party supporters scatter as police fire teargas and live rounds outside the Soweto soccer stadium where the funeral of ANC and CP leader Chris Hani was attended by hundreds of thousands of mourners on 19 April. 100 THE DEAD ZONE / ELLEN AGNEW 0101 FEATUREEDITORIAL/INTERVIEW/REVIEWS / THE DEAD ZONE / TITLE “…when viewing these images, one does not feel as if they numb the pain of this tumultuous past” On the 8th May 2019, citizens from across Trust, and in the reception they receive transition from “repression to freedom, the country lined up to cast their vote upon being viewed. totalitarian rule to democracy”. Tutu goes in the sixth democratic elections as the on to explain that the volatile pre-election Republic of South Africa – seemingly One image in particular – Doll’s Head, period was “designed to fill township the most important, and most pressured, Boipatong, 1992 sees a black man covering his dwellers with panic and to get them saying since the birth of the country’s democracy eyes with his left hand.
    [Show full text]
  • RELIGIOUS ACTION NETWORK for Justice and Peace in Southern Africa
    RELIGIOUS ACTION NETWORK for justice and peace in southern Africa a project of the American Committee on Africa SOUTH AFRICA: WHAT'S GOING ON FOUNDING MEMBERS AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT (Pa rti al listing) Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, Cha,·persan by Aleah Bacquie Concan Bophst Church, New York Canon Frederick B. Williams what's going on ••• Church of· the Intercession, New York Rev. M. William Howard, President In South Africa' it seems' the more things change' the Amencon Common .. on Afr;co more they stay the same. In the past two years' Nelson Jennifer Davis, EKecvtove Director Mandela and other prominent political prisoners were Ame,;canCommoHeeonAfnco released from prison . The African National Congress' Aleoh Bocquie, Coordmatar Pan Africanist Congress and other political parties RelogoousActoonNetwork were unbanned. But Blacks, some 83% of the South African · popula­ tion, are still denied the vote. In some areas, the rate of malnutrition among black children is as high as 60-70%. Some 400 political prisoners remairi in apartheid jails where ill­ treatment, torture, and murder by officials are still rampant according to human rights groups. And now, in addition to everything else, government sanctioned political violence threatens a just and democratic transition. It is no small indictment of South African society that its history is known mainly by its massacres. The Sharpeville Massacre thirty-two years ago left sixty-eight dead at the hands of police. The Soweto Uprising sixteen years later had a death toll of over 1000 due to South African police and security forces. On June 17th, 1992, another sixteen years later, fifty people lost their lives to state-sponsored violence in Boipatong.
    [Show full text]
  • EMFULENI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY SUPPLEMENTARY VALUATION ROLL for the PERIOD 2019 - 2020 July
    EMFULENI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY SUPPLEMENTARY VALUATION ROLL FOR THE PERIOD 2019 - 2020 July EMFULENI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY SUPPLEMENTARY VALUATION ROLL FOR THE PERIOD 2019 – 2020 EMFULENI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY SUPPLEMENTARY VALUATION ROLL FOR THE PERIOD 2019 - 2020 July Category Code Category Name RES000 RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES IND000 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES BUS000 BUSINESS & COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES MUN000 MUNICIPAL PROPERTIES PSI000 PUBLIC SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE COM000 COMMUNAL LAND STL000 STATE TRUST LAND PRO000 PROTECTED AREAS NAT000 NATIONAL MONUMENTS PUB000 PUBLIC BENEFIT ORGANIZATIONS SER000 SERVITUDES UNR000 TOWNSHIP TITLE PROPERTIES PLA000 PLACE OF WORSHIP AND/OR VICARAGE MUL000 MULTIPLE USE PROPERTIES MIN000 MINING PROPERTIES RES001 VACANT RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES IND001 VACANT INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES BUS001 VACANT BUSINESS & COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES FAR000 AGRICULTURAL PROPERTIES FARM00 AGRICULTURAL PROPERTIES NOT USED FOR ANY PURPOSES STA001 VACANT STATE-OWNED PROPERTIES EMFULENI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY SUPPLEMENTARY VALUATION ROLL FOR THE PERIOD 2019 - 2020 July TOWNSHIP: ARCON PARK REGISTERED OR OTHER FULL NAME OF OWNER(S) CATEGORY PHYSICAL ADDRESS OF EXTENT OF MARKET VALUER'S EXPLANATORY ZONING EFFECTIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE DETERMINED IN TERMS THE PROPERTY THE VALUE OF REMARKS DATE PROPERTY OF SECTION 8 OF THE PROPERTY THE ACT AND m² PROPERTY VACANT STAND ERF PTN INDICATOR 153 VAHED MEHMOOD RES000 N 24 GEUM AVE 1784 R 965 000.00 IMPROVEMENT ADDED RESIDENTIAL 1 2019-08-05 VAHED PREVASHINI N Page 1 of 279 EMFULENI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY SUPPLEMENTARY VALUATION
    [Show full text]
  • Sebokeng Wellness Centre to the Sebokeng Community and the Gauteng Department of Health
    PRESS RELEASE For immediate release 1 November 2013 ArcelorMittal South Africa donates R13m Sebokeng Wellness Centre to the Sebokeng Community and the Gauteng Department of Health ArcelorMittal South Africa, Africa’s largest steel producer is pleased to officially handover a R13 million state-of-the-art Reamohetse Wellness Centre situated at the Sebokeng Hospital precinct to the MEC for Health, Mr Hope Papo, the hospital’s management and the community on the 1st of November 2013. The project is a partnership between the ArcelorMittal South Africa Foundation and the Gauteng Department of Health. With the capacity to treat approximately 279 patients daily, 1395 patients weekly, 5580 patients monthly and 66960 per annum, the wellness centre will address the lack of adequate healthcare facilities for the disadvantaged communities residing in the Vaal Triangle. The MEC for Health, Mr Hope Papo said that the wellness centre will also fulfill a significant role in meeting the growing demand for healthcare in South Africa due to an increasing population and significant burden of disease due to HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB). It will also fulfil a pivotal role in meeting the South African National Aids Council (SANAC) mandate to have three million people receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment by 2015. “ According to statistics on the UNAIDS website 6.1 million South Africa citizens are living with HIV/Aids and an increasing number of people are becoming infected with drug-resistant TB strains. We are in need of more healthcare institutions such as the wellness centre to treat, maintain, educate and make those who are infected with the diseases lives as comfortable as possible, “says MEC for Health, Mr Hope Papo.
    [Show full text]
  • Death in Boipatong
    DEATH IN BOIPATONG The Dead ofBoipatong More than forty people were massacred at Boipatong on Wednesday 17 June. Men, women and children, and even those in their mother's womb were hack­ ed to death. Life, which hitherto offered only suffering, was snuffed out by men so low, that they could only attack at the dead of night when the shadows concealed their identity. Even though the evidence is hidden and might never be established there is little doubt about who is guilty. This killing must be laid at the door of the Intelligence Department and their allies in the Inkatha Freedom Party. It is clearly the work of men who are out to destabilize the townships, destroy all movements of opposition and reimpose the state of emergency. Addressing this issue, John Carlin said in The Independent (24 June 1992): In Boipatong, as in the majority of other massacres, the people who actually do the killing are blacks linked to the Inkatha Freedom Party...Those who direct them are whites operating within the intelligence structures of the police and army. The only issue in doubt is how high up does the authority come from? Does it stop at the 'securocrats', the generals and colonels who effectively ran the country during the Eighties? Or does it go right up to F W de Klerk, as Nelson Mandela claims? These questions have not been conclusively answered. The argument that this event was the result of previous shootings in the area is beside the point. The townships and squatter camps are witness to violence and murders week after week.
    [Show full text]