Graan

I'd love to get Graan to Glasgow to do a joint musical/metal night sometime!

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Now that thing, I stopped the vehicles and forced the people to say "power" as I was saying "power" too. van Graan:

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

Note 131: Advocate van Graan during testimony by Aubrey Dundubele Mokoena, 7 February 1977, SAB K345, vol. 148, Commission Testimony vol. 100, p. 4789. back

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

An exchange between Advocate van Graan and Dr. Bukofzer revealed the importance of this finding:

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

When the meeting was banned by the chief magistrate of Johannesburg at 1 P.M. that day, Mokoena and Dr. Aaron Matlhare "stopped at the gate of the church and turned people away as they came … on the grounds that the meeting was banned" — "[o] r," as Advocate van Graan said as he pounced on Mokoena in the course of this testimony, "unlawful."

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

At that time a Gilbey's truck passed, carrying some liquor and it was stopped by the students and they removed the liquor that was in it. van Graan:

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

Rumours of gold brought treasure seekers to the area and a university of Pretoria alumnus identified only as "Van Graan" rediscovered the site.

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I would say they drank the liquor because many people were drunk that day during the day during the day. van Graan:

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

I would not say who was who because we were just fleeing as we would now meet, not specifically students from Naledi or students from Morris. van Graan:

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

In the following exchange with Advocate van Graan and Judge Cillié, the chairman of the Commission, Mokoena recognized the student organizations and leadership as a self-contained, separate presence with its own historical agency and political will:

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005