Gangster State
PART I CREDENTIAL STRUGGLES ...
1 The Tumahole ‘treasonist’ Parys is one of the Free State’s northernmost settlements. It clings to the southern banks of the Va ...
problematic as the accounts of his later years as a senior government official. I did not have to look hard to discover that his ...
neighbour or a person you knew in the township, you’d take some mealie-meal to that house, take some coal or take some wood. Tha ...
the time when we were doing our studies in Afrikaans.’^2 Magashule was attending Phehellang Secondary School in Tumahole when th ...
(and which now appears on his own website), he ‘became a founder member of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) in 197 ...
of the UDF in the Free State and nationally, and I can guarantee that Ace was not one of the founding members,’ he told me. Popo ...
‘We were working on the ground all over the Free State, including in the north. We were putting up posters and painted walls to ...
Magashule a place in the struggle’s proverbial hall of fame, along with the likes of Treason trialists Nelson Mandela, Oliver Ta ...
happened. On 5 May 1982 , the Daily Dispatch reported on the ‘tense atmosphere’ at Fort Hare following Sebe’s run-in with the st ...
disrupt Sebe’s visit to the campus because we did not recognise his government’s authority and we wanted to get rid of him.’ As ...
Magashule and his co-accused were eventually convicted on charges relating to ‘public violence committed at a university’. They ...
to undergo military training.^19 These sound like the kind of struggle activities Magashule would later claim to have been inv ...
the general area,’ the source told me. ‘He was held at several police stations in the area during those months, including the on ...
2 Hillbrow days At some point after his ‘treason’ trial at Fort Hare, Magashule slipped into the secretive world of the ANC’s un ...
would beg. After we had passed through customs, I took the teddy bear back saying, “Thank you very much, have a good day,” befor ...
were all over the country. We’ll pretend to be lawyer[s] sometimes, put on a tie, take a bag, stay in hotels, change names, faci ...
he would have known if Magashule was part of this network. ‘If Ace was really recruited by Sotso, he would have had no problem r ...
commanded me the likes of Winnie Mandela had direct contacts with Chris Hani and, as I said, Steve Tshwete and many others ... S ...
concerning Magashule’s role in the struggle. Hugh Macmillan’s The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 – 1994 does not ...
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