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MINUTES OF MEETING HELD AT THE SECURITY POLICE HEADQUARTERS 7 JULY 1988, 12.00PM TO 13.00PM

PRESENT: CHIPPIE OLVER MICHAEL EVANSDETECTIVE W/O VAN DEN HEEVER DETECTIVE SERGEANT COETZEE

1. W e w e r e h o s t e d b y v a n d e n H e e v e r , w h i l e C o e t z e e w a s

p r e s e n t t h r o u g h o u t t h e c o n s u l t a t i o n . In a d d i t i o n

W / O S t e e n k a m p w a s p r e s e n t in t h e s a m e r o o m b u t d i d n o t

p a r t i c i p a t e in t h e m e e t i n g .

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2. V a n d e n H e e v e r i n f o r m e d C h i p p i e t h a t he w a s

i n v e s t i g a t i n g a b r e a c h of the 1 9 8 7 E m e r g e n c y R e g u l a t i o n

No. 5 (b) w i t h r e g a r d t o t h e " O u t of S t e p " p u b l i c a t i o n

(OOS) V o l u m e 1 N o . 4. H e s h o w e d us a c o p y of the

p u b l i c a t i o n i n w h i c h v a r i o u s p o r t i o n s w e r e u n d e r l i n e d ,

o b v i o u s l y r e l a t i n g t o t h e a s p e c t s of t h e p u b l i c a t i o n

w h i c h t h e y c o n s i d e r e d b r e a c h e d t h e E m e r g e n c y

R e g u l a t i o n s . W e w e r e a b l e to m a r k o n C h i p p i e s c o p y of

the p u b l i c a t i o n s o m e of the p o r t i o n s w h i c h t h e y h a d

u n d e r l i n e d .

3. V a n d e n H e e v e r t o o k d o w n c e r t a i n p e r s o n a l p a r t i c u l a r s

f r o m C h i p p i e , a n d t h e n w a r n e d h i m t h a t a n y t h i n g h e s a i d

c o u l d b e u s e d a g a i n s t h i m in e v i d e n c e . H e a s k e d

C h i p p i e w h e t h e r h e w i s h e d to m a k e a s t a t e m e n t , t o w h i c h

C h i p p i e r e p l i e d in t h e n e g a t i v e . H e t h e n p u t the

f o l l o w i n g q u e s t i o n s t o C h i p p i e .

Q U E S T I O N : A r e y o u a m e m b e r of E C C , if so s i n c e w h e n a n d in

w h a t c a p a c i t y ?

ANSWER: I h a v e b e e n a m e m b e r f o r s o m e tim e , a n d I h a v e

b e e n C h a i r m a n of t h e W e s t e r n C a p e b r a n c h s i n c e

t h e A G M in N o v e m b e r 1 9 8 7 .

Q: H a v e y o u h a d a n y i n v o l v e m e n t in t h e p u b l i c a t i o n " O u t of

S t e p " ?

A: I f i n d it d i f f i c u l t to a n s w e r , b u t I h a v e h a d no d i r e c t

i n v o l v e m e n t .

Q: Is t h e e x e c u t i v e of E C C r e s p o n s i b l e f o r its p r o d u c t i o n ?y%

A: T h e e x e c u t i v e has n e v e r p r o d u c e d O O S .

Q: W h a t is t h e a i m of E C C t h r o u g h t h e p u b l i c a t i o n O O S ?

A: U p t i l l t h i s y e a r , E C C d i d n o t h a v e a f o r m a l m e m b e r s h i p

b u t an i n f o r m a l m e m b e r s h i p . O O S w a s d e s i g n e d to k e e p

t h e m u p t o d a t e .

Q: Is it s e n t t o the p u b l i c ?

A: O O S h a s n e v e r b e e n w i d e l y d i s t r i b u t e d . It is l a r g e l y

d i s t r i b u t e d t h r o u g h m a i l i n g l i s t s a n d t h r o u g h f r o n t

o r g a n i s a t i o n s .

Q: Y o u s p o k e a b o u t i n f o r m a l m e m b e r s h i p the n . W h a t is t h e

s i t u a t i o n n o w ?

A: W e n o w h a v e s i g n e d u p m e m b e r s of ECC.

D o e s 0 0 S go to all m e m b e r s of E C C ?

Y e s .

Is it d i s t r i b u t e d to the p u b l i c ?

No, b u t l e t me q u a l i f y . it is h a n d e d o u t at p u b l i c

m e e t i n g s w h e r e the p u b l i c a t t e n d s .

W h o is t h e e d i t o r ?

T h e r e h a s n e v e r b e e n an e d i t o r .

W h o is t h e n in c h a r g e ?

It is p r o d u c e d by a c o l l e c t i v e w i t h i n ECC.

Is t h e r e t h e r e f o r e a c o m m i t t e e in c h a r g e ?

Y e s .

D o e s E C C h a v e a m e d i a c o m m i t t e e , a n d if so w h o a r e the

m e m b e r s a n d a r e t h e y r e s p o n s i b l e ?

E C C n o l o n g e r h a s a m e d i a c o m m i t t e e - t h e y h a v e

d i s b a n d e d .

D i d y o u r e a d t h e N o v e m b e r 1 9 8 7 i s s u e of O O S ?

Y e s .

Pg. 4/.

Q: W a s the c o m m i t t e e in c h a r g e of t h e p r o d u c t i o n of t h a t

i s s u e ?

A: Y e s .

Q: W h o a r e the m e m b e r s of t h e c o m m i t t e e ?

A: I a m n o t in a p o s i t i o n to g i v e t h a t i n f o r m a t i o n .

Q: W h o c a n g i v e t h a t i n f o r m a t i o n ?

A: I t s d i f f i c u l t to sa y , l e t me c l a r i f y . I w a s e l e c t e d

to p o s i t i o n of C h a i r m a n in N o v e m b e r at our A G M on

19 N o v e m b e r 19 8 7 . B y t h a t s t a g e O O S h a d p r o d u c e d f i v e

i s s u e s . It is r e f l e c t e d in t h e m i n u t e s of the A G M t h a t*%t h e f i v e i s s u e s w e r e p r o d u c e d b e f o r e the A G M . T h e l a s t

i s s u e w h i c h w a s p r o d u c e d is t h e o n e y o u a r e r e f e r r i n g

to, ie. V o l u m e 1. No. 4, w h i c h w a s p r o d u c e d b e f o r e I

t o o k o v e r as C h a i r m a n . I a m n o t in a p o s i t i o n to t a l k

a b o u t i n f o r m a t i o n p r i o r to m y b e c o m i n g C h a i r m a n o f EC C .

Q: D i d t h e m e m b e r s of t h e c o m m i t t e e c h a n g e a f t e r t h e A G M ?

A: N o v e m b e r 1 9 8 7 w a s the l a s t i s s u e of OO S . It t h e n

c e a s e d p r o d u c t i o n . I n e v e r d e a l t w i t h the c o m m i t t e e .

Q: W i l l t h e r e n e v e r b e a n o t h e r i s s u e ?

A: Its n o t i m p o s s i b l e t h a t t h e r e w i l l a n o t h e r i s s u e . A t

o n e s t a g e t h e r e w a s t a l k a b o u t it, b u t t h a t h a s n o w

b e e n s t o p p e d .

Q: W e r e y o u o n e of t h e m e m b e r s o f t h e c o m m i t t e e ?

A: N o .

4. V a n d e n H e e v e r t h e n le f t to w r i t e o u t t h e a n s w e r s to

the q u e s t i o n s w h i c h C h i p p i e h a d g i v e n . Sgt. C o e t z e e

t h e n i n f o r m e d C h i p p i e t h a t he w a s a l s o i n v e s t i g a t i n g a

c a s e u n d e r t h e 1 9 8 7 E m e r g e n c y R e g u l a t i o n No. 5 (b).

T h i s r e l a t e d to t h e E C C n e w s l e t t e r , " T a l e s G r i m m " of

A u t u m n 1 9 8 8 . H e a l s o h a n d e d us a c o p y of the

n e w s l e t t e r w h i c h h a d u n d e r l i n e d in it a p a r a g r a p h on

p a g e 3 w h i c h r e a d "It is us, our f r i e n d s a n d f a m i l y w h o

a r e c o n s c r i p t e d i n t o A n g o l a to do P r e t o r i a ' s d i r t y w o r k

- m a y b e e v e n t o d i e " .

5. I i n f o r m e d Sg t . C o e t z e e th a t we a c t e d as l e g a l

r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s of b o t h the C a p e T o w n a n d U C T b r a n c h e s

of EC C . T h e t w o b r a n c h e s w e r e e n t i r e l y d i s t i n c t f r o m

e a c h o t h e r . If he r e a d the f i r s t p a r a g r a p h of the

p u b l i c a t i o n it w a s c l e a r th a t it w a s n o t p r o d u c e d by

the C a p e T o w n b r a n c h of ECC. I s u g g e s t e d to h i m t h a t

he f o l l o w t h e s a m e p r o c e d u r e as S g t . v a n d e n H e e v e r

f o l l o w e d b y c o n t a c t i n g J u s t i n H a r d c a s t l e w i t h r e g a r d to

a n y i n v e s t i g a t i o n of " T a l e s G r i m m " . It w a s q u i t e c l e a r

t h e Sgt. C o e t z e e w a s n o t a w a r e of t h e d i s t i n c t i o n

b e t w e e n T o w n E C C a n d U C T ECC. He n e v e r t h e l e s s p u t the

f o l l o w i n g q u e s t i o n s to C h i p p i e , a f t e r e x p l a i n i n g to h i m

h i s r i g h t s a n d e s t a b l i s h i n g f r o m C h i p p i e t h a t he d i d

n o t w i s h t o m a k e a s t a t e m e n t .

Q U E S T I O N : A r e y o u a m e m b e r of E C C a n d if so w h a t p o s i t i o n

d o y o u h o l d ? 4

A N S W E R : I h a v e b e e n C h a i r m a n of t h e C a p e T o w n b r a n c h

s i n c e t h e A G M in N o v e m b e r 198 7 .

Q: W h a t is y o u r i n v o l v e m e n t w i t h t h i s E C C n e w s l e t t e r ?

A: I h a v e h a d no i n v o l v e m e n t a n d I h a v e no k n o w l e d g e of

w h o p r o d u c e s it.

Q: W h a t a r e the a i m s a n d o b j e c t s of E C C in d i s t r i b u t i n g

t h i s n e w s l e t t e r ?

A: I h a v e no idea.

Q: W h o is the e d i t o r ?

A: N o ide a .

Q: D o e s E C C p r i n t t h i s n e w s l e t t e r a n d if n o t w h o p r i n t s

it?

%A: N o i d e a .

6. C o e t z e e t h e n a s k e d C h i p p i e w h e t h e r h e w i s h e d to s i g n

t h e f a c t t h a t he d i d n o t w i s h t o m a k e a s t a t e m e n t , a n d

C h i p p i e r e p l i e d in t h e n e g a t i v e . V a n d e n H e e v e r t h e n

r e t u r n e d a n d a s k e d t h e f o l l o w i n g q u e s t i o n s :

Q U E S T I O N : W h a t are y o u r v i e w p o i n t s o n c o m p u l s o r y m i l i t a r y

s e r v i c e in S o u t h A f r i c a ?

A N S W E R : T h a t is n o t r e l e v a n t t o the c a s e b e i n g

i n v e s t i g a t e d .

Q: W h o w a s C h a i r m a n of E C C b e f o r e y o u , a n d is s h e / h e s t i l l

i n v o l v e d ?

A: Y o u p r o b a b l y k n o w t h e a n s w e r , it is Ms P a u l a H a t h o r n .

Is s h e s t i l l i n v o l v e d ?

N o t in the C a p e T o w n b r a n c h of ECC.

W h e r e is s h e i n v o l v e d ?

I a m n o t a b l e to a n s w e r t h a t q u e s t i o n ,

V a n d e n H e e v e r t h e n a s k e d C h i p p i e w h e t h e r he w i s h e d to

s i g n t h e s t a t e m e n t , t o w h i c h C h i p p i e r e p l i e d in t h e

n e g a t i v e .

V a n d e n H e e v e r t h e n e x p l a i n e d t h a t he d i d n o t w i s h

a r r e s t or d e t a i n a n y b o d y , b u t w i s h e d t o i n v e s t i g a t e’ «►

t h i s m a t t e r in as p r o f e s s i o n a l w a y as p o s s i b l e . He

p a r t i c u l a r l y w i s h e d Mr H a r d c a s t l e to be a w a r e of this.

He a l s o m a d e it c l e a r t h a t he w o u l d l i k e in f u t u r e to

be a b l e to ask C h i p p i e q u e s t i o n s ov e r t h e p h o n e .

C h i p p i e i n f o r m e d h i m t h a t E C C w a s o b v i o u s l y v e r y

c o n s c i o u s of t h e h a r a s s m e n t w h i c h it h a s e x p e r i e n c e d .

I i n f o r m e d h i m t h a t w e h a d c l e a r i n s t r u c t i o n s f r o m our

c l i e n t n a m e l y E C C , t h a t a n y a c t i o n by a n y i n d i v i d u a l

r e q u i r e d the m a n d a t e of the o r g a n i s a t i o n as a w h o l e .

It w a s t h e r e f o r e o f t e n a n e c e s s a r i l y c u m b e r s o m e p r o c e s s

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DATE: 26/7/88

PERSONAL HARASSMENT RECORD P O B o x 2 0 8

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This morning at O8hO0 I was telephoned by a nersistent caller who said

that he was phoning in connection with a letter appearing in the Cane

Times this morning. He had a faint Afrikaans accent, and denounced me

as being yellow in various parts of my anatomy (belly, penis, shit etc.).

This Oscar Wilde repartee was resumed in another call after I put the

phone down. I asked him if h e’d been in the Army; he said for two years

and 6 months, which is an odd way of describing national service

followed by camps, leading me to wonder if he was not PP. I inquired if

he had my number (which is not in the phone book) from the Security

Police (jocularly); to my surprise he said yes, but then contradicted

himself saying that he had it from my family (which was a lie). I nut

the phone down and went out to get a Cane Times, honing to see in it the

letter on military matters which I had written some days earlier. The

letter had not appeared. I had. had a teleletter in that newspaper the

previous day, so it is possible that the caller was nhoning in regard to

that, but I am surprised that he called me early in the morning of the

followingvday talking about a non-existent letter. On the other hand, if

the call was in connection with the letter which I had written, this

adds to my suspicions that the caller was a member of the security

forces, which were bolstered by the fact that he was calling at the

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M a y :

16th: * Branch car parked outside Dave Green's house overnight. 22nd: * W/O Trompie Theron visited the ECC office and declared that the planned ECC Fair was illegal. Site where the fair was to be held was visited by police and a similar message was given. Lawyers negotiated with branch to allow it to go ahead.

* Phone call from Publication Control Board saying that'War* series of films, being shown at our film festival, had not been cleared with them. According to a Dr. Coetzee, he was acting on a complaint. Problem sorted out a few days later as films were from the provincial library.23rd: * A helicopter (registration number Z2HLY) swooped low over ECC fair at 11am and dropped two types of smear pamphlets published by the Anti— liberal Alliance. One pamphlet linked us to the ANC and the other questioned our motives for having women involved in ECC.

* Police arrived at the fair at 2pm and said they had recieved a warning that a bomb would explode. Dogs searched but found no bomb.27th: * Lots of anti ECC graffiti appears around Cape Town and at UCT saying mostly things about Ivan and Paula. Graffiti sprayed on walls outside Mike Evans and Paula's house. More smear posters appear (ECC is Yellow, Does it from behind,etc.)

J u n e :1st: * Crank phone calls to Ivans house continue.9th: * Ivans friend Graeme Perlman's life threatened by phone ca l l e r .

* Breakdown service instruct ed to tow away Graemes car.11th: * Anti Liberal Alliance pamphlet appears in parent group member Angus Morton's post box.16th: * Graeme Perlman provided with an escort for the night.22nd: * 4 Crank phone calls to Ivans house .23rd: * Ivans car and house and his neighbours car and house covered in ECC "Peace Off" stickers.

* A3 Poster stuck up: "Ivan Toms is a fairy".* Anti Ivan graffiti appears.* ECC "Peace Off" stickers appear on Angus Mortons car.* Anti ECC poster stuck on Graeme Perlmans car.

25th: *5 Crank phone calls to Ivans house

July:1st: * Printed posters stuck on cardboard and hung from poles with Out of Step" logo and ECC chain put up all over Cape Town. Slogans: "ECC Probes Gay Membership", "Toms AIDS Test Positive". (This was the day that Ivan was due to be called up on).10th: * During this period the following ECC members have received crank phone calls: Chippy Olver, Matthew Blatchford, Felicity Wood, Tracey Clayton and Angus Morton.14th: * Phone call that claimed that bomb was about to explode in the office. Bomb Squad arrived, but no bomb.

For the 2 weeks prior to the day that Ivan was called up on (1st July), office had crank phone calls about ECC and mainly about Ivan everyday, sometimes up to 6 a day. The day that Ivans call- up was postponed the phone calls stopped until about the 14th

July. Most callers said they were from the Anti Liberal Alliance j although there were some arbitary callers.3rd,4th and 5th August: Caller says he is from National Radio Freedom, makes anti—ECC comments and plays old German Nazi music.

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Vvbodstock795Harrasment and smearing of ECC in the Cape Peninsula_198fi_t.n 1988

January 1986

* ECC member's car broken into and ECC pamphlets stolen.

* Wheel nuts of ECC member's car loosened.

March 1986

* An ECC national worker's air ticket cancelled by an unknown person without his authorisation.

* A group of men join an ECC fun run wearing T-shirts with the slogans "I love SADF", and "End Communism Campaign'' printed on them.

April 1986

* Five unidentified men confront ECC workers at an ECC street booth, remove all the media from the table, steal a banner, assault 2 ECC workers, and push aside a woman approaching the booth. Assault charges are laid with thepo]ice.

* The "anti-communist, anti-terrorist campaign" distribute posters in the vicinity of the venue for an ECC public meeting. The posters depict-ed a victim of a "Necklacing" with the slogan "ECC and supporters - you could be next". The same poster was sent through the post to members of ECC and the Civil Rights League.

* A poster is distributed around town depicting a man being "necklaced" and in the foreground a man wearing badges which contain the names ECC and UDF. It carries the slogan "SADF out of the townships - so that we can terrorize the people in peace."

* A stream of abusive anonymous telephone calls are received at the ECC office.

May 1986

* The front glass door of the ECC office is broken and anti-UDF pamphlets are left scattered about.

* ECC member assaulted while holding a picket board on the street advertising an ECC meeting.

* ECC member assaulted while distributing leaflets advertising an ECC meeting.

* Unknown individual approaches landlord of ECC office, falsely claiming that ECC is refusing to sublet one of its offices to him because of his political views and claims that ECC members "are a bunch of communists".

November 1986

* Pamphlet distributed around Cape Town attempting to smear the planned ECC Peace Picnic. The pamphlet followed an ECC pamphlet advertising the picnic in all details and style with the exception that it said that the picnic was for "Blacks Only" and that "tyres should be brought along". The pamphlets were distributed to homes in Bishopscourt, Newlands and Constantia. The picnic was held in Bishopscourt. The pamphlet was also displayed on electricity poles and traffic light standards, as well as the gates of Bishopscourt.

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December 1986

* A poster similar to that advertising an ECC rally is illegally pasted on shop doors and windows and on electricity boxes throughout Cape Town.

* On the day that an ECC sponsored walk is prohibited by a police order a slogan is painted on the ECC office door which reads "ECC we will get you".

* Posters advertising an ECC candle light vigil are systematically torn down or torn in half.

January 1987

* Graffiti "ECC kills" sprayed on the approach road to the University of Cape Town.

April 1987

* Graffiti sprayed and painted around the University of Cape Town reading: "Paula se poes", "ECC=ANC", and "Paula Hathorn, we are going to get you".

* Posters stuck over street posters advertising an ECC Day of Concern. The new posters bearing the ECC logo advertised a "National Day of Mourning" for "Victims of Terrorism", "Deceased National Servicdemen", and "Civilians Murdered by the ANC". Graphics on the posters showed a "terrorist" standing above a "necklaced" child and the Fort Klapperkop statue of a National Serviceman. These posters were also pasted over PFP elections posters.

* Further anti-ECC posters stuck over previous smear posters and on walls around Cape Town bearing the following

slogans: "ECC members are yellow", "ECC does it from behind”, and "ECC believes in fairy tales".

* Anti-ECC graffiti put up, some on shop windows.

* Banner, posters and pamphlets stolen from an ECC members car while other items of value left behind.

* ECC member Dr Ivan Toms is telephonically informed by a friend that a group of men have been seen putting up anti- ECC posters. He informs the police who claim they are unable to locate the culprits. A while later, Dr Toms caught the group putting up poster in Mowbray. He summoned police from Mowbray Police station. Together they apprehended the culprits. They were in a white Isuzu light delivery vehicle with the registration number CY 137 437. There were two men in the front of the vehicle and two men in the back with buckets of glue and illegal anti-ECC posters. They were asked by the police to drive to the police station. They, however, drove off in the wrong direction. Both Toms and the police chased after them, but they escaped. The police subsequently claimed that the registration number was false and that they had been unable to trace the vehicle.

* Fresh anti-ECC posters pasted up a day later.

* Three days later a message was left on the ECC office telephone answering machine by an individual representing the "Anti-communist Alliance" claiming responsibility for putting up the posters. He had a fake German accent aqnd threatened to break Dr Ivan Toms' knee caps. The message ended with "Heil Hitler". A similar message was left at the Cape Times news desk. Similar messages attacking ECC left by this person and others on the ECC answering machine. There was a constant stream of these until November when ECC moved its office. The name in which the messages were made was changed to the "Anti-liberal Alliance". They would be accompanied by German martial music and be described by the caller as broadcasts of "Radio National Freedom". They were always accompanied by threats of violence against ECC and individual ECC members. Often sexual obscenities would be included in the message. On most days 3 or 4 messages were left on the answering machine, while there would be an additional one or two calls to the office during office hours. The callers very rarely replied to questions from ECC members, preferring rather to put down their phone. Another pattern of calls was for people to phone asking innocent questions about ECC. As soon as an ECC member responded to these questions the caller would shout anti-ECC slogans and play the music. All of the above kinds of calls were received as well by individual members of ECC at their homes.

* An orange fluorescent sticker appeared at the University of Cape Town, bearing the slogan ""ECC Peace Off". Hundreds of thousands of copies of this sticker are subsequently put up throughout the country.

* An ECC member’s car was advertised in the classified section of Die Burger as being for sale. This advert was placed without her knowledge by an unknown person.

May 1987

* A helicopter with the registration number Z2HLY swooped low over an ECC fair dropping two different anti-ECC pamphlets both put out in the name of the "Anti-Liberal Alliance" and carrying an address which does not exist. The first pamphlet alleged that there were links between the ECC and the ANC, while the second questioned ECC's motives for having women in its organisation.

* A bomb threat was received by the organisers of the ECC fair. The SAP bomb squad checked the site and found no bombs.

* New anti-ECC graffiti appeared around Cape Town, included attacks on individual ECC members. At the same time copies of the "ECC members are yellow", "ECC does it from behind" and "ECC members believe in fairy tales" posters are pasted up around Cape Town.

June 1987

* Dr Ivan Toms receives daily "crank” phone calls. Among the calls are ones which threaten him and his housemate with death.

* A breakdown service is instructed by unknown persons to tow away Dr Toms' housemate’s car.

* Dr Toms’ house and car, and that of a neighbour covered with "ECC Peace Off" stickers.

* A new poster bearing the slogan "Ivan Toms is a fairy" pasted on walls around Cape Town.t

* Anti- Dr Toms graffiti sprayed and painted up at various venues in Cape Town.

* "ECC Peace Off" stickers pasted on an ECC members’s car.

* An anti-ECC poster is pasted on Ivan Toms’ housemate's car.

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* Printed posters stuck on cardboard and hung from lamp poles around Cape Town bearing the "Out of Step" masthead and the ECC logo. They carry the slogans: "ECC Probes Gay Membership" and "Toms AIDS test proves positive" These posters were put up on the day Ivan Toms was due to report for an army camp for which he had publically given indication that he refused to serve.

* A bomb threat received at ECC office. An investigation by the SAP bomb squad proved the threat to be false.

* For a 2 week period leading up to Ivan Toms' call-up the ECC office and Ivan Toms had a spate of obscene and threatening phone calls. On some days there were up to six of these. On the day before the call-up Toms received more than twenty of these calls. On the day that Toms' call-up was withdrawn the calls stopped. They stopped before a public announcement of the withdrawal of the call-up.

* Anti-ECC graffiti put up throughout Cape Town and near ECC members’ homes. Much of the graffiti called for violent action against ECC, e.g. "Smash ECC and "Death to ECC".

September 1987* it #■£ ja«ic o n t a i n i n g t h e E C C o f f i c e .

* Shopkeepers in the building receive telephone calls saying they must unite to kick ECC out of the building.

* A Cape Town artist commisioned to do a piece of work for ECC is the victim of a spate of detah threats to himself and his family if he continues to work for ECC. A former home of his is defaced by graffiti threatening him.

* An advert is placed in Die Burger advertising a video machine and TV set of an ECC member without the member's knowledge.

October 1987 i* A petrol bomb thrown at the entrance to the building containing the ECC office. It failed to ignite, but led to ECC's lease being terminated by the landlord.

November 1987* Threatening phone calls received by ECC members.

* Every single poster advertising an ECC public meeting systematically pulled down within hours of their being put up.

* The venue of an ECC public meeting defaced with anti- ECC graffiti. The graffiti reads "Danger ECC meeting inf lamrnible.

* A fake bomb found in the venue of an ECC public meeting before the meeting starts. During the course of the meeting bomb threats received by the organisers of the meeting.

* A stink bomb released at an ECC public meeting.

December 1987

* Every single poster advertising an ECC public meeting systematically pulled down within hours of their being put up.

January 1988

* Stickers systematically stuck up throughout the peninsula bearing the sogans: "ECC Peace Off", "ECC - Every Cowards Choice", and "End Communist Campaign". The stickers which were professionally printed were put out in the name of the "End the End Conscription Campaign" and carried a similar logo to that used by the ECC.

* Posters advertising two ECC "Know Your Rights” forums systematically pulled down within hours of their being put up.

* An anti-ECC pamphlet is put out in Fish Hoek, the venue of one of the "Know Your Rights" forurns. The pamphlet demands that ECC not hold a meeting in that area because it would disrupt "the quiet lifestyle of the residents". The pamphlet untruthfully claims to have been put out by the "Fish Hoek Residents Action Committee which is dedicated, together with al] RAC’s to preventing conflict".

February 1988

* A sticker bearing the slogan "Ireject ANC terror!" stuck over ECC media at the University of Cape Town.

Incidents of harrassment - Cape Town ECC 1986

January

^ T a ^ t a i r Teeling-Smith' s car was broken into by police and some pamphlets put out by the schools group were removed.

and another member of ECC were detained for about an hour while they were pamphleteering outside St. George's Grammaii School.

* Ivan had his wheel mysteriously loosened.

February

^Pwo security policemenn go and visit Bill Rawson the landlord® ^ , ; peak hl1? about the sexual preferences and the psychological problems of certain ECC members.

March

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*Prior to a fun run whcich had been organised a phone call is madeo the office warning us that we should get permission for the run.

* At the fun run a grokp of men arrive in "I love SADF" t-shirt**

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WJP booth at St Georges Cathedral in town. ONe Saturday the police arrive at the booth and demand to know names and thseaten to arre-t the group of people there.

* Another Saturday at the booth 5 white men come and take all the media off the table, steal the very beautiful banner andassault

the °tall6a««idePe0 there and Pu =h a woman whko was walking toward

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* A small poster gets plakked ufi around town with an image of a man being necklaced m the background and & person in the foregrokund wearing an ECC and UDF badge. The slogan "SADF out of the townships ....so that we can terrorize the people in peace"

^Throughout this month a number of phone calls to the office Some just threatening right wing calls, others a little more suspiciously asking us quite closely about the saurce for our funding, and our relationship to Ron Con at the time df the fair.

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Incidents of repression

Friday 21 MarchLaurie's air ticket which had been booked through SASTS to P.E. was mysteriously cancelled by a M s . van der Siet.

Thurs 20 MarchJosie receives phone call at Ron Con asking about our relationship with Ron Con and wanting to know if they give us money. Followed up the next day by a phone call to the office also asking about money and how we are funded.

MarchA few threatening ohone calls to the office wanting to know whether we had got permission for the fun run. Also after we had pamphleteered flats quite a few antagonistic calls.

MarchBill Rawson the landlord is approached by somsone who says that they applied to use the vacant office and that we wouldn't let him. But no-one had applied to lease the office and the first person who did apply we accepted since we needed the money.

MarchSecurity Police go to Allie and ask who takes our media and who collects it etc. They also asked about the UDF and a couple of other orgs.

MarchWhen Gavin left to go to the USA he was stopped at the airport and searched and they confiscated 2 out of 3 copies of his evidence to the U.N.

MarchECC spoke at St.Josephs school in Rondebosch and the principal of the school was visited and asked about ECC and who from ECC had made all the arrangements.

MarchAt the fun run there was a security police presence and a group of about 15 men arrived wearing 'we love the SADF'shirts and 'End Communism Campaign' shirts.

MarchVarious people have had their names taken while pamphleteering. On one occasion at the booth outside St. Georges Cathedral In town police threatened to arrest people and took their names. They then said that they wouldn't arrest everyone if Chippy went with them and spoke to them. ECC people there discussed it and decided that Chippy should not ^o and speak to the police and so he didn't other than to go and te&l them that he wouldn't be speaking to them.

AprilThe boothat St.Georges Cathedral was attacked by 5 people. The WJP banner was stolen and all of the media on the booth. They tried to hit Mike R. and Nic and they pushed a woman who was standing trying to find out more about ECC against a tree. Charges of theft and assault have been laid.

AprilThe glass front door of the office was broken and some right wins anti UDF pamphlets found outside.

Harassment Document, Cape Town EGC

1986

October: Brian Voss, member of Media committe and Creative action, was

visited by W . 0. "Trompie" Tberon and another branch member for over an

hour at his house one lunchtime. Theron talked informally to Brian and

seemed intent on building up some sort of relationship with him. He also

invited Brian out for lunch.

November:

22nd: Nic Borain and Rob Snethlage were picked up outside Cavindish

Square in Claremont, while they were staffing an ECC booth. The police

said they were being detained for not having an imprint on one of their

photocopied display boards. The uniformed police officers called branch

who took them back to their houses and searched their rooms. They were

released without being charged after having been held for four hours.

Nic's house was subsequently visited on at least four occasions on the

pretext of wanting to lay charges. Nic was not staying at home at the

time.

24th: Dave Green and Pat Orpen were taken to Caledon Square at 11.30pm

after having been stoped from putting up posters advertising an ECC

symposium. They were kept at the police station for two hours and then

released.

26th: Andy Orpen was picked up by police at 8.30 am for pamphleteering

outside the station in Cape Town. The pamphlet was advertising an ECC

symposium. He was held for an hour and then released.

30th: A smear pamphlet was distributed attacking the ECC Peace Picnic.

The pamphlet was almost identical to the original except for the fact

that it said the picnic was for "Blacks only" and that "tires should be

brought along". The pamphlets were distributed to houses in Bishopscourt,

Newlands and Constantia. It was also displayed on electricity poles,

traffic lights and the gates of Bishop's Court, where the peace picnic

took place.

December:

3rd: * Mike Evans, Paula Hathorn, Josie Grindrod, Alastair Teeling-Smith,

Andy Orpen, Mike Rautenbach, Chippy Olver, Mathew Blachford and Felicity

Wood were detained at their houses at 4.30am in terms of the Emergency

regulations.

* Nic Borain's house was also visited at that time, but he was not

staying at home.

* In what appeared to be a second swoop between 9am and 11am, the

houses of the following: activists were visited: Dave Green, Barbara

i riedman, Dave Patrick, Margo Lynn. Vaun Cornell's workplace was also

visited. None of the above were present or picked up in the swoop.

* At a city hall rally held by the ECC that evening, a smear poster,

identical to the pole posters advertising the rally, was stuck on shop

doors and shop windows around the city hall.

6th. A proposed sponsored walk to Guguletu was banned by Brig, Swart

in terms of the emergency regulations. On the same day a slogan was

spray painted on the ECC office door, "ECC we will eet you".

10th: Posters advertising an ECC candle light vigil were systematically

torn down or torn in half

17th: The ECC 9, detained on 3rd December, were charged with makine and

disseminating subversive statements in te<TE of the emergency regulations.

They were released from detention,

1987

January: Anti ECC graffiti, "ECC kills" was spray painted on the road

near UC'T.

1 4th: ECC 9 appeared in court. Case remanded untill February.

30th: Alastair Teeling-Smitb visited by Sgt. Pikker, Con. Van Zyl and

two other uniformed policeman at 4.30 am. His room was searched and

they seized 200 militarization documents.

February:

10th: ECC office toilet broken into. Intruders defecated on the floor.

They did not gain access into the office as the toilet door was locked.

16th: ECC 8 appeared in court. Charges were dropped.

March:

19th: At the front organizations meeting spot for GB, two uniformed

policeman were present in an unmarked car. This lead to the cancelation

of the GB.

21st: During the construction of an ECC ’peace sign1 sandcastle an

Muizenberg beach, there was a right wing presence of 15-20 people,

who turned out to be members of a SAP rugby team. They eneaged activists

in debate and called the police. Mike Rautenbach and Dave de Jonge

were taken away by the police for wearing troops out of the townships

T-shirts. They were held for three hours and then released.

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April:

1st: Two days before a GB, a person giving; his name as John Thorne

phoned the venue for the GB to ask what time the GB would start. The

venue had been safely organized with few people knowing about it.

incidents of repression

4--Z-&0Alistair leeling-S'mith was at a meeting at JU malleson itoad and found

2 policemen breaking into his car. Apparently he was parked over a

driveway and they needed to move his car. nfnie doing so they noticed

pamphlets etc. in his car and decided to break in and remove a cadets

pamphlet. Tney wouldn't give a receipt, m addition to the cadets

pamphlet they took a sticker and a copy of an old oanuar.y call up

pamphlet.

incidents of repression

5-2-ob

Alistair Teeling-Smith and Sally Andrews were briefly detained whilst

doing some schools pamphleteering outside a t . (ieorges .Grcv^tW £cMoo( .

.Pamphlets, stickers ,timetable were confiscated, xhey were kept.at

The mowbray police station for 45 minutes, ‘'detained lor The purposes

of interrogation". The police wanted to Know their names and addresses

and if they were at uuX. Alistair said that they were not at all

heavy and that it was interesting to talk to them.

nepression continued...

5-2-06

Two security d o Licemen went to visit our landlord and snent about

an hour with him. They were ..arrant ol'ncer Theron and r Tallyard.

it is not ruite clear what their purposes were, the landlord didn't

feel that they were trying to persuade him not to let to us. xhey

tilled him in on some personal details oi bCo members, which seems

to have been an attempt to discredit us.

Harassment Document, Jape Town IvJC

1986

Oc t o b e r : Brian Voss, member of Media committe and Creative action, was

visited by W.O. "Trorapie" Theron and another branch member for over an




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released without beins chareed after having been held for four hours.



tim e .

24th: Dave Green and Pat Crpen were taken to Caledon Square at 11.30pm



released.







brought along". The pamphlets were distributed to houses in Bishopscourt


traffic lights and the gates of Bishop's Court, wbere the peace picnic

took place.

De cember:

3rd: * Mike Evans, Paula Hathorn, Josie Grindrod, Alastair Teeling-Smith


Wood were detained at their houses at 4.3Cam in terms of the Emergency

regulations.


staying at home.

* In what appeared to be a second swoop between 9aa and 11am, the

houses of the following activists were visited: Dave Green, Barbara

Friedman, Dave Fatrick, Margo Lynn. Vaun C o r n e l l’s workplace was also


* At a city hall rally held by the ECC that evening, a smear poster,



6th: A proposed sponsored walk to Guguletu was banned by Brig. Swart


spray painted on the ECC office door, "ECC we will get you".



17th: The ECC 9, detained on 3rd December, were charged with making and

disseminating subversive statements in tetie of the emergency regulations.

They were released from detention.

1987

J a n u a r y : Anti ECC graffiti, "ECC kills" was spray painted on the road

near UCT. .

14th: ECC 9 appeared in-court. Case remanded untill February.

30th: Alastair Teeling-Smith visited by Sgt. Pikker, Con. Van Zyl and


they seized 2CO militarization documents.

F e b ruary:




M a r c h :



of the GB.

21st: During the construction of an ECC 'peace sign' Eandcastle an Muizenberg beach, there was a right wing presence of 1 5 -2 0 people,

who turned out to be members of a SAP rugby team. They engaged activists




A p r i l :

1st: Two days before a GB, a person giving his name as John Thorne



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HARASSMENT DOCUMENT

April 1987 1

2 0 t h : Anti-ECO graffiti appears around the UCT campus: 'Paula se

Poee', 'ECC-ANC', 'Paula Hathorn, we are going to get you'.

22nd: Smear poetere stuck over *Day of Concern' posters advertising

a public meeting. Smear poetere advertised a 'National Day of

Mourning' for ’Victims of Terrorism', 'Deceased National Service

men' and 'Civilians murdered by the ANC'. Graphics ueed on the

posters w’ ere s terrorist' etanding above a necklaced child and

the Fort Klpperkop statue of a conscript.*2 3rd: More ECC smear posters appear, etuck over previous smear

posters and on walls around Cape Town, with the following slogans:

ECC mambere are yellow

ECC doee it from behind

ECC believes in fairy tales.

ECC member Mark Sutherland picked up by the police for defacing

tjie smear posters with a koki. Held for a h o u r ^ n t i l Branch

arrived. Branch member claimed they were responsible for the k

smear poeters.

More anti-ECC graffiti appears, some of it sprayed on the windows

of Open Books.

Banner, poeters and pamphlets stolen out of the boot of ECC mem

ber Tracey Clayton'e car. A police van had driven past her car

while she was locking the boot. Other items of value were left in

the car.

2 6t h : ECC member Ivan Toms received a phone call from a friend

that people w^re sticking up anti-ECC poeters in Claremont.

Police Informed but claimed they could not find the culprits.

Tome caught then putting up poetere in Mowbray. He eummonzed

police from Mowbray Police Station. Together they aprehended the

culprite. They were in a white Ieuzu bakkie, registration number

CY 137437. There were two men in the front of the bakkie and two

in the back with a bucket of glue and anti-ECC posters. They were

asked to drive to the police station. However they drove off in

the wrong direction. Both Toms and the police chaeed after them

but they escaped. The police subsequently claimed that the regis

tration number wae false and they had been unable to trace the bakkie.

27th: More anti-ECC poetere appeared on the streets.

30th: A message was left on the answering machine at the ECC office,

by an individual repreeenting the 'Anti-Communist Alliance' who

claimed responsibility for the posters. He had a fake German

accent and said they would break Dr. Tome'e knee caps and saying

they did not .11 ku \ iU- V - ■ u- he liked little boys. The message

ended with: 'Hell Hitlar'. A similar meseage wae left at the Cape

Times newsdesk. This pereon hae subsequently left several meesages

on the answering machine.

3rd— Ma^: Empty Branch car parked at a meeting point where people

had left thier care to go to a campaign meeting.

5th: Orange flourescent stickers appear at UCT saying 'ECC Peace

Off'. Similar in appearance to ECC stickers.

7th: ECC member Joeie Grindrade car advertised in Die Burger ae

being for sale. A d vert placed for Thursday, Friday and Saturday by

Grindrad HONDA CAUAIX

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HARASSMENT DOCUMENT

April 1987

,20th: Anti-ECC graffiti appears around the UCT campus: 'Paula se

Poes', 'ECC«ANC', 'Paula Hathorn, we are going to get you'.

2 2 n d : Smear posters stuck over 'Day of Concern' posters advertisin

a public meeting. Smear posters advertised a 'National Day of

Mourning' for 'Victims of Terrorism', 'Deceased National Service

men' and 'Civilians murdered by the ANC'. Graphics used on the

posters w’ are a terrorist' standing above a necklaced child andct

the Fort Klpperkop statue of a conscript.*2 3 r d : More ECC smear posters appear, stuck over previous smear

posters and on walls around Cape Town, with the following slogans:

ECC members are yellow

ECC does it from behind

ECC believes in fairy tales.

ECC member Mark Sutherland picked up by the police for defacing

the smear posters with a koki. Held for a h o u r ^ n t i l Branch

arrived. Branch member claimed they were responsible for the k

smear posters.

More anti-ECC graffiti appears, some of it sprayed on the windows

of Open Books.

Banner, posters and pamphlets stolen out of the boot of ECC mem

ber Tracey Clayton's car. A police van had driven past her car

while she was locking the boot. Other item® of value were left in

the car.

2 6 t h : ECC member Ivan Toms received a phone call from a friend

that people were sticking up anti-ECC posters in Claremont.

Police informed but claimed they could not find the culprits.

Toms caught then putting up posters in Mowbray. He summonzed

police from Mowbray Police Station. Together they aprehended the

culprits. They were in a white Isuzu bakkie, registration number

CY 137437. There were two men in the front of the bakkie and two

in the back with a bucket of glue and anti-ECC posters. They were

asked to drive to the police station. However they drove off in

the wrong direction. Both Toms and the police chased after them

but they escaped. The police subsequently claimed that the regis

tration number was false and they had been unable to trace the

bakkie.

,27th: More anti-ECC posters appeared on the streets.

,30th: A message was left on the answering machine at the ECC office

by an individual representing the 'Anti-Communist Alliance' who

claimed responsibility for the posters. He had a fake German

accent and said they would break Dr. Toms's knee caps and sayin?

they did noo l»k0 n r ti-1 u' he liked little boys. The raessasre

ended with: 'Heil Hitler'. A similar message was left at the Cape

Times newsdesk. This person has subsequently left several messages

on the answering machine.

3 r d _ M a ^ : Empty Branch car parked at a meeting point where people

had left thier cars to go to a campaign meeting.

,5th: Orange flourescent stickers appear at UCT saying 'ECC Peace

Off'. Similar in appearance to ECC stickers.

7th: ECC member Josie Grindrads car advertised in Die Burger as

being for sale. Advert placed for Thursday, Friday and Saturday by

a %Mr. Grindrad'. HONDA SAUADf //M6 800

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HARASSMENT DOCUMENT-

M a y :

16th: * Branch car parked outside Dave Green's house overnight. 22nd: * W/0 Trompie Theron visited the ECC office and declared that the planned ECC Fair was illegal. Site where the fair was to be held was visited by police and a similar message was given. Lawyers negotiated with branch to allow it to go ahead.

Phone call from Publication Control Board saying that*Var# series of films, being shown at our film festival, had not been cleared with them. According to a Dr. Coetzee. he was acting on a complaint. Problem sorted out a few days later as films were from the provincial library.

? ~ d! * A h e licopter (registration number Z2HLY) swooped low over v,.f ® lr at U a m ,and dropped two types of smear pamphlets

published by the Anti-liberal Alliance. One pamphlet linked us to the ANC and the other questioned our motives for having women involved in ECC.

* Police arrived at the fair at 2pm and said they had recieved a warning that a bomb would explode. Dogs searched but found no bomb.

P.™*11 * Lots °f anti ECC graffiti appears around Cape Town and at UCT saying mostly things about Ivan and Paula. Graffiti sprayed on walls outside Mike Evans and Paula's house. More smear posters appear (ECC is Yellow. Does it from behind.etc.)

J u n e :

1st: * Crank phone calls to Ivans house continue.9th: * Ivans friend Graeme Perlman's life threatened by phone caller.

' Breakdown service instruct ed to tow away Graemes car. llth: * Anti Liberal Alliance pamphlet appears in parent group member Angus Morton's post box.16th: * Graeme Perlman provided w ith an escort for the night.22nd: * 4 Crank phone calls to Ivans house i23rd: * Ivans car and house and his neighbours car and house covered in ECC "Peace Off" stickers.

* A3 Poster stuck up: "Ivan Toms is a fairy".* Anti Ivan graffiti appears.

ECC Peace Off" stickers appear on Angus Mortons car.* Anti ECC poster stuck on Graeme Perlmans car.

25th: *5 Crank phone calls to Ivans house

J u l y :

* Pointed posters stuck on cardboard and hung from poles with Out of Step" logo and ECC chain put up all over Cape Town. Slogans: "ECC Probes Gay Membership". "Toms AIDS Test Positive". (This was the day that Ivan was due to be called up on).10th: * During this period the following ECC members have received crank phone calls: Chippy Olver. Matthew Blatchford, Felicity Wood, Tracey Clayton and Angus Morton.14th: * Phone call that claimed that bomb was about to explode in the office. Bomb Squad arrived, but no bomb.

For the 2 weeks prior to the day that Ivan was called up on (1st July), office had crank phone calls about ECC and mainly about Ivan everyday, sometimes up to 6 a day. The day that Ivans call- up was postponed the phone calls stopped until about the 14th

July. Most callers said they were from the Anti Liberal Alliance although there were some nrbitary callers.3rd,4th and 5th August: Caller says he is from National Radio Freedom, makes anti—ECC comments and plays old German Nazi music.

Incidents of harrassment - Cape Town ECC 1986

January*Alastair Teeling-Smith's car was broken into by police and some pamphlets put out by the schools group were removed.

*Alastair and another member of ECC were detained for about an hour while they were pamphleteering outeide St. George’s Grammart School.

* Ivan had his wheel mysteriously loosened.

February^Two security policemenn go and visit Bill Rawson the landlord and speak to him about the sexual preferences and the psychological problems of certain ECC members.

March*Laurie books an air ticket to P.E. through SASTS and it was cancelled on hid behalf.

*Prior to a fun run whcich had been organised a phone call is made to the office warning us that we should get permission for the run.

* At the fun run a grokp of men arrive in "I love SADF" t-shirts and wait* with "End Communism Campaign" printed on the back of the shirts. _ ' .v o f S t JC'ZCpi'M Cxlo€> <j(- S 't • J . ^ c: C C

A p r i l* WJP booth at St Georges Cathedral in town. ONe Saturday the police arrive at the booth and demand to know names and threaten to arrest the group of people there.

* Another Saturday at the booth 5 white men come and take all" the media off the table, steal the very beautiful banner andassaul-ttwo of the ECC people there and push a woman whko was walking toward the stall aside.

*The anti-communism a n t i c a m p a i g n emerges in this month.They leave a couple of posters at the ECC rally in the city hall "ECC and supporters - you cpuld be next. They send the same poster to some individuals and also to th e Civil Rights league.

* A small poster gets plakked ujh around town with an image of a man being necklaced in the background and & person in the foregrokund wearing an ECC and UDF badge. The slogan "SADF out of the townships ....so that we can terrorize the people in peace"

♦Throughout this month a number of phone calls to the office. Some just threatening right wing calls, others a little more suspiciously asking us quite closely about the source for our funding, and our relationship to Ron Con at the time af the fair.

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Harassment Document, Oape Town ECC

1986

Oc t o b e r : Brian Voss, member of Media coir.mitte and Creative action, was

visited by W.O. "Trompie" Theron and another branch member for over an




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time.

24th: Dave Green and Pat Crpen were taken to Caledon Square at 11.30pm



released.









traffic lights and the gates of Bishop's Court, wbere the peace picnic

took place.

December:

3rd: * Mike Evans, Paula Hathorn, Josie Grindrod, Alastair Teeling-Smith

Andy Orpen, Hike Rautenbach, Chippy Olver, Mathew Blachford and Felicity

Wood were detained at their houses at 4.3Cam in terms of the Emergency

regulations.


staying at home.

* In what appeared to be a second swoop between 9aa and 11am, the


rriedman, Dave Patrick, Hargo Lynn. Vaun Cornell's workplace was also


* At a city hall rally held by the ECC that evening, a smear poster



6th: A proposed sponsored walk to Gueuletu was banned by Brig. Swart


spray painted on the ECC office door, "ECC we will eet you".



17th: The 1SCC 9, detained on 3rd December, were charged with makine and

disseminating subversive statements in tetie of the emergency regulation


1987

Ja n u a r y : Anti ECC graffiti, "ECC kills" was spray painted on the road

near UCT.

14th: ECC 9 appeared in court. Case remanded untill February.




Fe b rua ry :




M a r c h :



of the GB.

2ist: During the construction of an ECC 'peace sign' sandcastle on

huizenberg beach, there was a right wing presence of 1 5 - 2 0 people,

who turned out to be members of a SAP rugby team. They enzaeed activist




A p r i l :




Harassment Document, Cape Town ECC

1986

October: Brian Voss, member of Media committe and Creative action, was

visited by W.O. "Trompie" Theron and another branch member for over an




November:









time.

24th: Dave Green and Pat Orpen were taken to Caledon Square at 11.30pm



released.









traffic lights and the gates of Bishop’s Court, where the peace picnic

took place.

December:

3rd: * Mike Evans, Paula Hathorn, Josie G-rindrod, Alastair Teeline-Smith


Wood were detained at their houses at 4.30am in terms of the Emergency

regulations.


staying at home.

* In what appeared to be a second swoop between 9as and 11am, the


iriedman, Dave Patrick, Margo Lynn. Vaun Cornell's workplace was also


* At a city hall rally held by the EGC that evening, a smear poster,



6th: A proposed sponsored walk to Guguletu was banned by Brig. Swart


spray painted on the ECC office door, "ECC we will get you".

10Eh: Posters advertising an ECC candle light vigil were systematically


17th: The EGC 9, detained on 3rd December, were charged with makine and

disseminating subversive statements in tetns of the emergency regulations.


1987

January: Anti ECC graffiti, "ECC kills" was spray painted on the road

near UCT.

14th: ECC 9 appeared in court. Case remanded untill February.




February:




March:



of the GB.

21st: During the construction of an ECC 'peace sign' sandcastle en

Muizenberg beach, there was a right wing presence of 15-20 people,

who turned out to be members of a SAP rugby team. They engaged activists




April:


phoned the venue for the GB to ask what time the G-B would start. The


D e a r A d e l e

E n c l o s e d is the f o r m of t h i n g s t h a t w e r e t a k e n f r o m M i c h a e l d u r i n g

his last d e t e n t i o n . He a s s u m e s t h a t you are l o o k i n g for the l e t t e r

f r o m G a v i n , and sa y s th a t th a t was t a k e n w h e n he was d e t a i n e d w h e n

the e m e r g e n c y was d e c l a r e d , and th a t it was in a big f i l e or f o l d e r

or s o m e t h i n g , and t h e y d i d n ' t w r i t e it d o w n as an i n d i v i d u a l item.

And a n y w a y , he h a s n ' t f o u n d t a h t form. But a s s u r e s t h a t it isn't

l i s t e d .

So, hope t h i n g s are a l r i g h t t h a t s i d e , we got b a c k s a f e l y

Lots of love

Paula

SAP 290

SUID-AFRIKAANSE POLISIE SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE

SAP 13 . J . S S / S t s . S.A. Polisie S.A. Police

PER AANGETEKENDE POS BY REGISTERED POST

t!Z.Uni,M:2,L.Eva/vs.V i c e I t L o . c k

U word hiermee ingevolge subartikel (2) van artikel 31 van die Strafproseswet, 1977 (W et 51 Y ou are in term s o f subsection (2) o f section 31 o f the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act 51

van 1977), in kennis gestel da t u die voorwerp(e) soos beskryf in die Bylae op die keersy hiervan o f 1977), hereby notified to take possession o f the article(s) described in the A nnexure on the

binne 30 dae by bogenoem de polisiestasie moet kom afhaal.reverse side hereof within 30 days a t the above-mentioned police station.

I W '— Indien u versuim om genoemde voorwerp(e) binne 30 dae v a n a f die d a tu m i \ \ B — If you fail to take delivery o f the said article(s) within 30 days from the date

hiervan a f te haal, word dit aan die Staat verbeur. hereof, the article(s) shall be forfeited to the State.

S.A. Polisie S.A. Police.

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■ Een bruin kartondoos bevattende dokumentasie oor eT c .C.

Een bruin kartondods bevattende dokumentasie oor NUSAS#& SPIEE Computer print-outs

Guide lines on detention

Newsletter Distribution

Proposals for new CIIR Book on E.C.C.

2 bundels bevattende koerantuitknipsels

All our sons by Rose ZWI

Special report S.A. (Coup in PRETORIA)

bevattende dokumentasie (Michael EVANS op voorkant)The Apartheid "Security" Strategy

The Uniformed web that sprawls across the country

Newsletter of the CAPE TOWN E.C.C. - June 1986

Leverarch File E.C.C.

Een groen bontax leer

Work in progress (45)

Plakkertjies (Remember the detainees)

Een geel leer bevattende dokumentasie

Een rooi leer bevattende dokumentasie

Een donker geel U e r bevattende dokumentasie

Een bruin rol bevattende plakkate

Upfront 4 June 1986

Upfront 5 Okt. 1986

Grassroots 84 (We speak for ourselves)

Boek - Beyond reform : The challenge of change.

Resource booklet on Military Service

Long Range Capabilities of the S.A. Defence Force

^ C o u n c i l o f L e b o a : E x e c u t i v e C o m m i t t e e f i f t e e n s p e c i a l

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Statement by Mevaa DU PLESSIS gedateer 10/8/86

Koevert bevattende notas by voordeur gevind.

Sjambok 50c

NYANGA BUSH : The story of the squatters

"We will not move" (NUSAS publication)

CROSSROADS "Would you make a deal with this man?

Free all political prisoners and detainees (Sticker)

The Constitution and Crisis pamphlet

White power ; There can be no compromise

NUSAS says no to new Constitution (U.D.F.)

Brief vanaf U.D.F. - Dear fellow S.A.

U.D.F. - Peace and friendship is what we want

U.D.F. - Who wants peace?

Brief gerig aan Mike vanaf Mark geskryf op folio papier

2 Geskrewe papiere in Mike EVANS se handskrif

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END CONSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN (ECC)

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