Alleged Mk members are killed

The South African Police (SAP) and the South African Defence Force (SADF) ambushed and killed six alleged Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) members on the Breslau Road near Alldays. It emerged later during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings that their killing was a well planned and calculated thing. The operation was launched in response to information received about a planned infiltration, via Botswana, of a group of six heavily armed MK guerrillas. When the minibus carrying the MK guerillas, driven by Constable Sehlwana who was appointed to meet the group at the border under the pretext of being a taxi driver, stopped at the designated place, shooting between the police and Mk members ensued. Five of them were killed and the remaining guerrilla, alive though badly wounded, was taken away for interrogation. During interrogation, a military medic gave him an injection to stabilise his condition but he died later, on the way to Alldays. The following applied for amnesty for their role in this incident, J.H. Kruger, L.M Pretorius, M.M Sehlwana, N.S. Coetzee, P.A. Dreyer, Jan Strydom, Senior Superintendent A.J.G Erwee, P.T.C.J. Fourie, P.P.F Fuchs , FCS Swarts , J.P. van den Berg , W.J. van der Merwe, J.H. van Dyk and Josef Venter. Read about the proceedings of the TRC during amnesty hearing of the killers of the alleged MK members For more information on the TRC amnesty hearing and the Alldays six.