PART THREE : THE DEATHS IN THE MMABATHO/MAFIKENG AREA

    Summary
1. Names Of "Deceased" Duplicated Or Similar To Another Deceased
2. Deceased Non-Existent
3. Deaths Not Related To Violence
4. Identity Of Deceased Not Established
5. Deceased Found To Be Alive
6. Circumstances Of Death Not Established
7. Findings Of Remaining Deaths

SUMMARY

A total of 60 names of people who had allegedly died not only during the violence on 10 and 11 March 1994 but in the week of 5 to 12 March 1994 compiled from lists of names reported by the Lawyers For Human Rights, in the theses and papers of a number of students and from the investigations of the Investigating Team, was presented to the Commission. There was also a case of one death of which the identity of the deceased could not be established. A list of the cases and of the names referred to in each one is as per Annexure A.

The Investigating Team opened dockets in each of the cases and each one was fully and properly investigated. The Commission also caused advertisements to be placed in the media and announcements to be made over radio and television, both locally and nationally, inviting relatives and friends and other interested parties to come forward if they knew of persons who had died during the period in question and whose deaths they wanted investigated. It did so in case bodies could have been buried without post-mortems having been conducted or without the deaths having been reported to the police or other authorities. No new cases, however, as a result came forward. The Commission investigated each one of the cases in detail.

The Commission's investigations and findings are fully set out in Part Four of this Report. A summary of those investigations and findings is as follows:

1. In twelve (12) of the cases it was found that the name of the deceased was similar to that of one of the other deceased and that they were in fact one and the same person. These cases are the following:
Case No 7: Mothobi Galetlale - the same person as Eslita Galetlale Mothobi (Case No 37).
Case No 8: Winnie Gaobolelwe - the same person as Gaobolelwe Leinie Moeng (Case No 22).
Case No 12: Piet Kgoeng - the same person as Monnapula Piet Bakgoeng (Case No 1).
Case No 16: Matshidiso Lerwane - the same person as Matshediso Sylvia Leinana (Case No 15).
Case No 23: Lilly Moeng - the same person as Gaobolelwe Leinie Moeng (Case No 22).
Case No 33: Leinana Morris - the same person as Matshediso Sylvia Leinana (Case No 15).
Case No 34 And Case No 35: Digwamaje Morwa and Irene Morwe - both these are the same person as Lobisa Irene Digwamaje (Case No 4).
Case No 36: Lesego Mosito - the same person as Lesego Rosinah Khuduge (Case No 13).
Case No 39: Aniki Nakedi - the same person as Kehentse Anna Nakedi (Case No 38).
Case No 43: Manila Ngwenya - the same person as Mandla Elliot Ngwenya (Case No 42).
Case No 53: Lin Tareefs - the same person as Rivies or Reeves Lesige (Case No 17).

2. In three (3) cases, the persons whose deaths had been reported were found to be non-existent. These cases are the following:
Case No 2: L Batswana
Case No 31: Obakeng Molope
Case No 60: Frank Zoza

3. In eleven (11) cases the deaths of the persons were not related to the violence but were the result of other causes e.g. caused in a motor accident, due to the deceased having been electrocuted, to his having committed suicide or from natural causes. These cases are the following:
Case No 1: Monnapula Piet Bakgoeng
Case No 10: Justice Petrus Kadi
Case No 11: Shadrack Bennet Kadi
Case No 19: McDonald Matebele
Case No 20: Thebeitsile Jacob Mbaba
Case No 25: Martha Mogapi
Case No 29: Joseph Mokgwatlheng
Case No 41: John Lindi Ndikandika
Case No 44: Phillip Oupa Ntsonda
Case No 45: Thapelo Daniel Oepeng
Case No 52: Phillion Sevalo

4. In the case of one death, the identity of the deceased could not be established viz.
Case No 61: Unknown Adult Male

5. In four (4) cases the persons reported as having died were found to be alive. These cases are the following:
Case No 3: Anna Seitiso Bereng
Case No 32: N Molotsi
Case No 48: Isaac Sebogodi
Case No 50: Jeremia Setshwana

6. In three (3) of the remaining thirty (30) cases, although the identity of the deceased and the cause of death could be established, the circumstances in which the deceased had died could not be determined. These cases are the following:
Case No 18: Lebogang Brown Manyeneng
Case No 21: Precious Kgalalelo Mocwadira
Case No 49: Leinalelentle Goodman Selabe

The reasons for not being able to determine the circumstances of these deaths are set out fully in Part Four of this Report.

7. In the remaining twenty seven (27) cases the Commission made the following findings in these cases viz.

(a) the identity of the deceased is LOBISA IRENE DIGWAMAJE, an adult, female, aged 40 years.
(b) the circumstances of her death are that the deceased were shot whilst fleeing from members of the Bophuthatswana Police Force at a roadblock near the Bophuthatswana Police Head office and Training College, also known as TTA on 10 March 1994 by unknown members of the Bophuthatswana Police Force.
(c) the cause of the death is "shock and haemorrhage consequent to multiple fire-arm pellet injuries involving lung and brain".
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of a member or members of the Bophuthatswana Police Force, whose identity however, can not be established.

(a) the identity of the deceased is JOHN KGOSI DISEKO, an adult, male, aged 24 years.
(b) the circumstances of the death are that the deceased was shot while participating in the looting at Mega City on 10 March 1994 by someone whose identity cannot at this stage be ascertained.
(c) the cause of the death was sepsis of his wound which was a gunshot wound in the stomach, and circulatory collapse. He died on 26 April 1994.
(d) the Commission cannot determine if the death was brought about by an act or omission prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of any person.

(a) the identity of the deceased is NICOLAAS JOHANNES FOURIE an adult, male, aged 40 years.
(b) the circumstances of the death is that the deceased was probably killed when he was a passenger in a car which was part of a convoy of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging vehicles that was involved in a skirmish with members of the Bophuthatswana Defence and Police Force on 11 March 1994.
(c) the cause of the death was bullet wounds of the head and neck involving the brain and spinal cord.
(d) as the deceased was probably shot and killed during the skirmish in which he had fired at people and had had his shots returned, the Commission is of the view that there was no act prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of any person.

(a) the identity of the deceased is FRANCOIS WILLEM JANSEN VAN RENSBURG an adult, male, aged 36 years (identity number 5709 1 25096082).
(b) the circumstances of the death are that the deceased was shot on 11 March 1994 by an unidentified member or members of the Bophuthatswana Police Force and or Bophuthatswana Defence Force while a passenger in a convoy of Afrikaner Volksfront vehicles on their way out of Bophuthatswana.
(c) the cause of the death is a "gunshot wound of the oral cavity and pharynx with aspiration of blood".
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of an unknown member or members of the Bophuthatswana Police Force or Bophuthatswana Defence Force.

(a) the identity of the deceased is LESEGO ROSINAH KHUDUGE, a female, aged 15 years.
(b) the circumstances of the death are that the deceased was shot on 10 March 1994 probably at Mega City by an unidentified member of the Bophuthatswana Police Force.
(c) the cause of the death was a bullet wound.
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facile involving or amounting to an offence on the part of an unidentified member of the Bophuthatswana Police Force.

(a) the identity of the deceased is WILHELMINA NNUNU KGWADINYANE, an adult, female, aged 22 years.
(b) the circumstances of the death are that she was shot by an unknown person in Central Mafikeng on 11 March 1994.
(c) the cause of the death is a "massive head injury caused by a bullet wound',.
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facie amounting or involving to an offence by an unknown person.

(a) the identity of the deceased is MATSHEDISA SYLVIA LE1NANA, an adult, female, aged 32 years (identity number 6201105100604).
(b) the circumstances of the death are that the deceased died of a gunshot wound inflicted on 11 March 1 994 by an Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging member whose identity cannot be established.
(c) the cause of the death is "shock and haemorrhage due to laceration of left lung due to a firearm injury ".
(d) the death was brought about by an act prime facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of an unidentified Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging member.

(a) the identity of the deceased is RIVIES LESIGE, an adult, male, aged 36 years.
(b) the death occurred between 11 - 13 March 1994.
(c) the death was caused by asphyxia, burns and bruises.
(d) the death was not brought about by any act or omission prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of any one.

(a) the identity of He deceased is GAOBOLELWE LEINIE MOENG an adult, female, aged 32 years.
(b) the circumstances of the death are that the deceased died from a gunshot wound inflicted on 11 March 1994 by an Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging member whose identity cannot be established.
(c) the cause of the death was "shock and haemorrhage due to gunshot wound involving the left lung".
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of an unidentified Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging member.

(a) the identity of the deceased is NTHUDI ISAAC MOKGALAPA an adult, male, aged 49 years (identity number 4406120101003).
(b) the circumstances of the death are that the deceased was shot on 11 March 1994 while travelling as a passenger in a combi in Mafikeng by a person whose identity cannot be established.
(c) the cause of the death was "hipovolemic shock as result of a gunshot wound of the chest which ruptured a lung and the liver"
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of an unidentified person.

(a) the identity of the deceased is TEBOGO LAWRENCE MOKAATSELA, an adult, male, aged 21 years (identity number 73010220109906).
(b) the circumstances of the death are that the deceased died from wounds sustained by being shot by a shotgun on 10 March 1994 in a cemetery near Mega City by an unknown assailant.
(c) the cause of the death was "a head wound (cranio-cerebral injury) caused by pellets from a shotgun which pellets penetrated the brain".
(d) the Commission is unable to determine if the death was brought about by an act prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of any person.

(a) the identity of the deceased is KEBONEMOTSE JOEL MOKALENG, an adult, male, aged 25 years (identity number 6806100100509). the circumstances of the death are that the deceased died on 11 March 1994 from a gunshot wound inflicted by a member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging whose identity can, however, not be determined.
(c) the cause of the death was "shock and haemorrhage due to laceration of the left lung consequent upon to a gunshot wound".
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of an unidentified member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging.

(a) the identity of the deceased is OARABELE JOSEPH MOKGOSANA, an adult, male, aged 24 years.
(b) the circumstances of the death are that the deceased who was a pedestrian in Station Road in Mafikeng, died on 11 March 1994 as a result of gunshot wounds inflicted by a white male whose identity cannot now be established.
(c) the cause of He death was "haemorrhage and shock due to laceration of the liver and head due to a gunshot wound".
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of an unidentified white male.

(a) the identity of the deceased is LEBOGANG MARIA MOLEFE, a female child, aged 14 years.
(b) the circumstances of the death are that the deceased died from burns sustained in a fire at Itsoseng Forum, Itsoseng on the night of 10 March 1994. It is unable to determine who was responsible for starting the fire.
(c) the cause of the death was burn injuries.
(d) no act or omission prima facie amounting to an offence on the part of any person (or persons) can be established.

(a) the identity of the deceased is ESLITA GALETI,ALE MOTHOBI, a female, aged 19 years.
(b) the circumstances of the death are that the deceased was shot by an unknown assailant on 10 March 1994 probably at Mega City from where she was taken to hospital where she died shortly after admission. There is no proof of an allegation that she had been raped, which was clearly based on unsubstantiated and hearsay statement.
(c) the cause of the death was a gunshot wound severing the femoral artery.
(d) the Commission is unable to determine whether the death was brought about by any act or omission prima facie involving or amounting to an offence the part of any person.

(a) the identity of the deceased is KEHENTSE ANNA NAKEDI, an adult, female, aged 50 years.
(b) the circumstances of the death are that the deceased died as a result of wounds caused when she was shot on 11 March 1994 in Montshiwa by a member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging whose identity cannot be established.
(c) the cause of the death was "shock and haemorrhage consequent upon firearm pellet injuries over breasts, thighs and legs".
(d) the death was brought about by an act prime facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of an unidentified member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging.

(a) the identity of the deceased is JOHN NZIMENI NDAKANA, an adult, male, aged 36 years.
(b, c and d) the Commission cannot establish how or where the deceased met his death although he may have died from inhaling smoke at a place or in an area where burning had occurred. No act or omission prima facie amounting to an offence on the part of any person (or persons) can be established.

(a) the identity of the deceased is MANI)I A ELLIOT NGWENYA, an adult, male, aged 26 years.
(b) the circumstances of the death are that on Friday, 11th March 1994 at about 06:00 the deceased was shot and killed by a member of the Bophuthatswana Police Force at 210 Masupha Street, Montshiwa. Mojaki Dubritious Lechuti was one of the Bophuthatswana Police Force members who fired at the deceased and others at the above mentioned house.
(c) the cause of the death was "Shock and haemorrhage as result of firearm injury involving spleen, led lung and left kidney".
(d) although Lechuti was prosecuted for the murder of the deceased and subsequently acquitted, the Commission is of the view that the death of the deceased was brought about by an act prima facie amounting to an offence on the part of Lechuti or an unidentified member of the Bophuthatswana Police Force.

(a) the identity of the deceased is PETRUS NYEMBANE SAUL, an adult, male, aged 33 years (identity number 6003190100158).
(b) the circumstances of the death are that he was shot by unknown white men while travelling as a passenger in a taxi in Mafikeng on 11 March 1994.
(c) the cause of the death was a gunshot wound to the chest.
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of a person or persons but whose identity the Commission is unable to determine.

(a) the identity of the deceased is MATOTA PETRUS SEBAETSE, an adult, male, aged 30 years.
(b&d) the Commission is unable to determine how or in what circumstances the deceased met his death.
(c) the cause of the death was cranio-cerebral head injury caused by blunt force.

(a) the identity of the deceased is LAWRENCE SELEHO SEUPE, an adult, male, aged 25 years (identity number 6807070102201).
(b) the circumstances of the death are that he was shot on 11 March 1994 in Mafikeng by an unidentified member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging and died on 27 July 1994 of the wounds sustained.
(c) the cause of the death was "hypoglycaemia and septicaemia as result of a bullet wound that had become septic".
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of an unidentified member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging.

(a) the identity of the deceased is POGISHO HENDRICK TSETSE, a male, aged 18 years.
(b&d) the circumstances of the death are that the deceased died as a result of a gunshot wound, probably sustained at or near Mega City on Thursday, I O March 1994, but the circumstances in which he was shot cannot be established.
(c) the cause of death was "a bullet wound severing the spinal cord".

(a) the identity of the deceased is JACOBUS STEPHANUS UYS an adult, male, aged 33 years (identity number 600417 5154083).
(b) the circumstances of his death are that he was shot and killed by Constable Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatsoe on 11 March 1994 while lying wounded next to a Mercedes Benz car which had been involved in a skirmish win members of the Bophuthatswana Defence and Police Force and in which the deceased had been a passenger.
(c) the cause of the death was bullet wounds to the chest and the head.
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facie amounting to an offence on the part of Constable Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatsoe.

This is purely a criminal matter which was adequately dealt with by a Court of Law as set out in Part Four of this Report.

(a) the identity of the deceased is FRANCOIS ALWYN VENTER, an adult, male, aged 54 years (identity number 4002135038000).
(b) the circumstances of the death are that, on the probabilities, the deceased died from multiple wounds sustained when he was shot by an automatic weapon fired by an unidentified member or members of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force travailing in an armoured vehicle of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force along the Mafikeng-Ramatlhabama Road on 11 March 1994.
(c) the cause of the death was "multiple gunshot wounds"
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facie involving or amounting to an offence on the part of an unidentified member or members of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force.

(a) the deceased was Piet Vilakazi, a male, aged 14 years.
(b) the deceased died on 10 March 1994.
(c) the cause of the death was gunshot wounds.
(d) the death of the deceased was brought about by an act or omission involving or amounting to an offence on the part of police officers Constable William Mojolwane, Constable Alfred Mogaetsho, Constable Diteko Martin Gaorabelwe and Constable Tutubalang.

(a) the identity of the deceased is ALWYN WOLFAARDT an adult male, aged 43 years (identity number 4912115177000).
(b) the circumstances of his death are that he was shot and killed by Constable Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatsoe on 11 March 1994 while lying wounded next to a Mercedes Benz car which had been involved in a skirmish with members of the Bophuthatswana Defence and Police Force and in which the deceased had been a passenger.
(c) the cause of the death was crania cerebral injuries caused by having been shot in the head.
(d) the death was brought about by an act prima facie amounting to an offence on the part of Constable Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatsoe.