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AZANIAN PEOPLE S LIBERATION ARMY

Former combatant’s lonely pension battle drags on

Bureaucratic hurdles have made Nelson Phasha’s life hell since he returned from exile

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
File photo by RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images
AZANIAN NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY

Almost 3000 military vets push ahead with reparations claim of R4.2m each

The claim is based on the R500 000 each veteran was promised in 1994, which they say today works out to be R4.2 million.

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
Reparations: ANC launches its election manifesto in Durban (. Military veterans, who were members of the Non-Statutory Forces, are planning to protest at the ANC’s elective conference on 16 December in protest against their not being compensated. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Military veterans plan R10 billion class action

The former soldiers want the state to pay them R4 million each in reparations

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
File photo by RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images
ANC

Ex-combatants threaten to take Ramaphosa to court

Military veterans from Umkhonto weSizwe, Azanian People’s Liberation Army and Azanian National Liberation Army have sought legal advice in a dispute over payments

  • Lizeka Tandwa
3 min read
Former political prisoner Kenny Motsamai spent 28 years in prison for a crime committed as a member of the Azanian People’s Liberation Army during apartheid. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP)
AZANIAN PEOPLE S LIBERATION ARMY

Motsamai journeys from prison to Parliament

The newly sworn-in delegate was only recently released from Boksburg prison and is on parole after serving almost 28 years behind bars

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read