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Original Post Date: 2008-10-30 Time: 14:00:13 Posted By: Jan
By Louise Flanagan
The man accused of shooting a child while chasing a suspect is an ANC military veteran and former law enforcement official who claims to be a crack shot.
Uriel Abrahamse works for the ANC head office, Luthuli House, in central Johannesburg. He is a deputy general manager and has been a senior figure in the party since the 1990s.
“He is one of our senior officials,” was all ANC spokesperson Brian Sokutu would say on Wednesday.
In 2000 Abrahamse worked briefly in municipal law enforcement for the Johannesburg council.
A press report from that period refers to him as the council’s chief law enforcement officer. It’s understood he was never more than the acting chief and left when he was turned down for the position.
Abrahamse joined the ANC as an exile in Gaborone, Botswana, where he worked with the Medu Art Ensemble, co-ordinating the children’s unit.
He was one of the targets of the SA Defence Force’s June 1985 raid on Gaborone and initially was reported as having been killed. However, he escaped because he had moved out of the house weeks before.
He told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2000 that after the raid he decided to join MK, the ANC’s armed wing.
Abrahamse, who was opposing an amnesty application by a security force member on the Gaborone raid, told the TRC that during his MK military training he learnt to shoot “very, very well, to the extent that as a trainee I was given the responsibility of carrying the company machinegun in my platoon, and immediately after my basic training, I was trained in anti-aircraft artillery”.
He said that “up to today, I visit the shooting range regularly and my average in shooting, even with a pistol, is in excess of 95 percent accuracy”.
He became ANC regional treasurer in Angola, responsible for logistics such as food and clothing for members in Botswana.
He was in Angola with MK during the SADF’s fighting there, which culminated in the battle of Cuito Cuanavale in 1988.
“The battle of Cuito Cuanavale teaches us that we all have the capacity to overcome an evil system, such as apartheid was,” Abrahamse wrote on a newspaper blog two months ago.
“Beyond this, it instructs that we can live together in the same country despite our political, cultural and social differences.”
“The main message emanating from Cuito Cuanavale is one of reconciliation between nations and peoples,” he said.