comrades

MR DUMA: No. I gave the orders direct to Mr Biko. I ordered them, I sent one of our comrades to make a contact that, to Mr Yengeni and Mr Veveza as well as Mogeti, that I want to meet with them in Zukile's house around three in the afternoon, knowing that at that time they will expect me to be ...

... be represented properly. As I was told that Mr Dehal is the one who would be able to represent us in a proper manner and as we expect him to do as comrades. He's got some background, because he got some information from the other comrades and he was told that since we've been there in prison we ...

MR BLOU: Yes, they are comrades he used to go with. But now those comrades I think they are also in Port Elizabeth.

In 1986 on the 3rd of March, I think it was Monday if I am not mistaken. It was in the afternoon I was at home, comrades arrived, it was four or five of them. They were asking about Christopher who is my son. I told them that he took money from me telling me that he is just going to work.

... myself from my activities and, in any event, I went on trying to do, finish my schooling, but, as you know, we were all connected somehow so your Comrades would know you by name or by face. Later on I got involved again, like, within the SRC and I was chosen again to be the Chairperson of the ...

While I was still there, one of my comrades, comrade Moses Mahone was handcuffed, was chained in the legs and I could see that the comrade was injured.

... within the camp and what happened is that during 91, that was a massive year where most of these agents who infiltrated, organised innocent comrades within the camp and mobilised them to steal property within the premises and go and see it to the local peasants ...

"Then I asked them what they want I must do. They said I must tell them about the comrades that I came with from exile. They wanted to know where they are staying and what is their job and what is their deployment."

Applicant justified the killing of the deceased because he and his comrades believed that:

... DUBE: Firstly, the situation that prevailed at that time was that of war in the country. Secondly, as a commander I had to provide security for my comrades and for myself. Thirdly, logistics was also a very important matter and one was not able to take other options. That is why I say at the ...

It would also be common cause that at the time of the applicant's actions, that the applicant, together with his other comrades, were actively involved in the liberation struggle for South Africa and their motive and their actions were based mainly on having freed and having liberated their ...

That is when they told that my child had been taken away by the comrades and taken to a mortuary in a van.

corpses. Then I did find my grandson. Then the person responsible gave me a letter, then I came back home. When I came home the comrades said that that is our person, so we will see what to do. They took the paper, then they said we will bury him.

"As we were the comrades of that time, we tried by all means to democratise our Black people who were still living in the 'barrack'" is the best way I can read it "people where Black people were freed from mental slavery."

I went back to the stadium and I reported to my fellow Comrades what took place and they said that we are going to meet at seven o' clock after the rally where I should prepare a statement and then they will consult a lawyer. Seven o' clock I could not make it. I slept at home, because of the ...

... during May of 1977, it became clear from newspaper reports that I was likely to be involved in the second Breytenbach trial. We discussed it with comrades in Johannesburg and a decision was taken that we should join the ANC's external ...

MS PADIACHEY: Mr Khanyile, you have noted that there has been ongoing violence in Greytown at this stage, did you or any of your other comrades at this time do anything to assist or to hinder the violence in this area at this time?

... East Rand where he came from, was a focal issue. He was drawn into this conflict as a member of the Vosloorus community. He and some of his local comrades bought firearms with money that in part came from business people in the community. The purpose of purchasing these firearms was to protect ...

... pseudonym. He told them that I was going to be the Commander. He said that they would get instructions from me, or details from me. I saluted my comrades. I asked them their pseudonyms and they told me. They left after that. So there was another soldier. He told me that and that was ...

REV XUNDU: Are these comrades of Makaleni?