Abstract
The defence received the final version of the indictment on 26 August 1985, about a month before the trial began.1 It was not a revealing document. The eight accused of murder and subversion were simply informed that they were at the least members of the crowd at Dlamini’s home, that ‘the mob, including the accused’ was rowdy, stoned the house, set fire to it and Dlamini’s car, and attacked the councillor, robbed him of his gun, stoned him, threw his body on his burning car and set him alight with flammable fuel, thereby killing him.2
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Record 1003–4,1011 (Dokki Sefatsa). One of them, Machwachwa, was shot dead by the police. An alibi of this sort would be have been improbable a couple of years later, when it would have been dangerous to defend a black policemen. At this time, however, people still thought that security policemen should be re-educated or ignored; Charles Carter, ‘Community and Conflict: the Alexandra Rebellion of 1986’, (1992) 18 JSAS 115–42, 121; J. Seekings, Quiescence and the Transition to Confrontation 273–4.
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Parker, P., Mokhesi-Parker, J. (1998). The Prosecution Case. In: In the Shadow of Sharpeville. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14617-8_7
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