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Suspended MKMVA spokesperson Carl Niehaus outside the Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal on 8 July 2021, shortly before he was arrested. Picture: YouTube screengrab/SABC.

Umkhonto wesizwe military veterans association

Carl Niehaus describes his court case as a plot to fight political battles

By Nhlanhla Mabaso

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  • FILE: Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association's Carl Niehaus. Picture: EWN

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  • FILE: MKMVA chair Kebby Maphatsoe. Picture: Supplied

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  • A screengrab of Judge Siraj Desai being interviewed in Parliament. SABC/YouTube.

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  • FILE: Western Cape ANC leader Marius Fransman. Picture: AFP.

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    3225 days ago
  • Four Umkhonto we Sizwe soldiers who went missing 24-years ago were reburied on Sunday 14 July, 2013 in a ceremony at the Naledi Community Hall in Soweto.Picture:EWN/Lesego Ngobeni

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    3272 days ago
  • A little girl is seen among messages of hope put up on a wall outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital where a critically-ill  Nelson Mandela is being treated, Thursday, 27 June 2013.Support for Mandela was growing  with well-wishers of different nationalities visiting the hospital in Pretoria.The presidency has said that his condition remains critical. Picture: Werner Beukes/SAPA

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    3286 days ago
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    3541 days ago
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