Casspir

... into these things. In 1993, it so happened that whilst walking with Mulabise, we were just walking around and we landed at the shops, we saw this casspir, sorry it was a Nyala, five men alighted out of this casspir, some of them were wearing coats, because this car was coming from Tshabalala ...

... a technical problem and the people who didn't move. We moved from the direction of the bar and we saw there standing someone and even the Police Casspir was there. I instructed Charlie to throw the first bomb and we had to get inside the houses next to Tembisa Stores. Charlie threw the first ...

out of the toilet and moved towards my sister’s room and I peeped through the bedroom window to se what was happening outside. I could see it was a Casspir which was loading these people. I saw Mandla and his brothers getting into the Casspir together with some other people whose names I did not ...

... of the unit, they followed a spoor (tracks) of an individual for two days. On the second day this Commissar, not having been able to outrun the Casspirs, took shelter in a kraal. One John Deegan was acting Commander of the team. He ordered that a Casspir be driven over the hut and that the ...

... After taking that grenade out, he threw it and then the shooting started. There were police next to me. They were standing at the back of the Casspir. Then they told the taxi to go on the side so it was next to the Casspir. I then threw one grenade. What happened is, the police were just ...

the soldiers, his name is Blackie, he shot.That's when we scattered and we tried to run to different directions. As wewere running there was another Casspir that was coming. When I turned aroundI just heard gunshots. I fell down. There's a boy who came to me by the nameGufuthi. I asked him whether ...

... them where they are taking me too and they told me to shut-up not to say anything because I came to Colesberg with my politics. They took me to the Casspir and they were kicking me. They took me to the police ...

MR RAS: Yes, that is because we took photographs of all houses from the Casspir, all the houses that were close to the border, we made use of a helicopter, we also made video recordings, all of these things took place in the first period of time, then we identified the house after which a three ...

Because I was in flames, because the shacks were burning. Then I, as I was coming back, I was shot by one policeman who was next to the door of the Casspir and then those Witdoeke were chasing me, and caught up with ...

MR J MBANE:: When the number had grown to nine and we were doing the training, and they were excited and hungry for action. We went out to shoot a casspir, the doors were closed and we couldn’t injure anybody. When we tried to escape, the kombi was stuck in the sand and thus we ran away and the ...

... strict instructions to carry out reconnaissance properly so that military patrols were the primary targets of landmine operations. In one case, a Casspir armoured vehicle detonated a mine in Mamelodi township. In the border areas, where nearly all landmines were detonated, the precise targeting ...

MR STRYDOM: Yes. And then the other situation, he described for casspirs, four to five casspirs, but he said four eventually, he said were gathered outside the township, attackers got into these casspirs, these casspirs moved off simultaneously into the township, then they split up, at a later ...

... quite further down in the south, and further up there are chiefs' places. At the location there was so much violence, and there would be a police Casspir or police van that was standing right there at the top looking down and guarding the people at the south. And now at some stage we just saw ...

MR ALEXANDER: No, Your Worship. What happened was on that evening there was a Casspir parked on the corners of I think Thornton and Klipfontein main road, on that field there. We always thought that there was police involvement. We never, until the statement, I never saw the police, they never ...

10/12/87 Skirmishes with SAP: Port Elizabeth area SAP raid on shack; heavy resistance from cadres; SAP drove Casspir over shack, killing four

gain political points and he arrived there with a helicopter and fell out of the air like manna and after the battle had passed, he disappeared in a Casspir with his tail between his ...

... were taken by an officer in charge to do surveillance in this area where we were supposed to do duty, and when we entered the residential area the casspir vehicle in which we were being conveyed, came to a halt and all our, my colleagues cocked their weapons and told us that we would rather, we ...

... and keep a vigil there because we had heard that we were going to be attacked. After about a few minutes, whilst we were there, we saw a police Casspir. It parked there. We were about 200. They just stopped there and looked at us. Thereafter it happened that this Casspir went away and it ...

... phoned his house, he wanted to report what was going on. Nobody answered the phone in his house. He phoned the neighbours and he was told that a Casspir had arrived with soldiers. They said that a soldier's Casspir arrived, the doors were kicked and they broke the doors and they took his wife ...

"I will never forget my first patrol in a Casspir. The Casspiris the police vehicle of choice in the townships, huge brutishmachines loaded with a plethora of weapons and equipment, invincibleand inhuman in scale. We entered one of the sprawling Port Elizabethtownships and began our run as in a ...