comrades

NADEL MEMBER: Thank you Honourable Chairperson, members of the Commission, the Minister of Justice, friends, colleagues, comrades and everybody else.

... personal or why admit the murder was political and the robbery personal, why not just say they were both personal if the order was to keep your comrades away from it as far as ...

MR SCHOON: I should imagine Sir, that it was myself and Jenny and the two comrades involved in SANA.

MR JWAMBE: Yes. 1106 was a house for the comrades where they would meet regularly for meetings. Comrade Pinki Phindi would go there regularly. They would teach us about tactics to fight the enemy, to defend ourselves. They taught us these tactics only for defence. 1106 was a well-respected ...

... was - he was one of the commanders or their commander in Swaziland, had given them that instruction to kill Ben because Ben had basically sold out ...

MR XUNDU: Comrades Skumiso Nxunuba was also my friend, close friend so through that we knew each other, he was even known by my parents and I'm even known by his parents. And Togela Mlangwesa, I once lived at his home, I think for something like a month ...[indistinct]. That is how it is possible ...

MRS KALOLI: At the end of 1985 KTC was burning. There were Witdoeke in KTC and the comrades came to my house. They said to my son let us go and extinguish the fire in KTC. So they helped me get out the clothes. He left with them, and he left. He stayed there for a while. We heard gun shots and ...

... we called Pluto’s. They use to stay at Nyanga East next to terminus. Barnard was from those people, while he was with us now, he told us come out comrades, you are cowards, are you afraid of these people. Ja and you know - as you know when somebody is calling you a coward, you don’t want to be ...

... Friday the 9th of May 1986 I assisted Robert to transport Gordon Webster and his girlfriend Anne to Botswana where they were then transported by MK comrades to a safe-house in ...

MR DLAMINI: I will then enquire from the IFP leader, from that area, because these people were actually his comrades, so I will check with him.

MRS MAGQAGQA: Yes, there were people who came to assist me with regard to the burial and the Comrades were also present and there were also women who might have been from the Women’s League or from different societies. They came to assist.

MR ISMAIL: Well, by and large, comrades were told to resist answering questions, they were told that they would probably be beaten up, tortured, that at all times, they should think about the ANC and be loyal to the ANC and understand the political objectives. They had to understand that they ...

MR ARENDSE: Just for the record, this is the same person that has been referred to by your other comrades, Power, Mzala, Jones, is this one and the same person?

We were asked to go to Roodepoort at the police station where some corpses were. We informed the Comrades that Pumsele had passed away and that we had no money to bury him. Dan made a donation. We first went to Roodepoort to try and find him and he was there. After that he was buried.

... interfering with one of the informers, Mr Mlongwane and you assaulted him, because he had confronted Mr Mlongwane about testifying against fellow comrades and you assaulted and Mr Pitse was assaulting him at the same time, because Mr Jack had disrupted a meeting of Chief Lucas Mangope, of Chief ...

You say you were requested by Mr Mpo Tseklo(?) to transport his fellow comrades.

am a trained soldier, I had a weapon, I had a responsibility as a member of the ANC to protect lives, first my own life and secondly the lives of my comrades and colleagues and thirdly, the building and those who were in it so I could not turn my back and run when I had that obligation and that ...

That's when I met him with his comrades like Atwell Maqekeza, Tandofiqa Radebe, but Tandofiqa Radebe was a student there. The others from Grahamstown Maswai, Siphiwo Maswai, they were all working together and I had contact with him.

This happened when we rushed to the place where we heard that there was a cry. We discovered that there was one of our comrades who was at the back of the van. And then this gentleman pulled the car along the street. During the period there were lot of people who were coming around and we wanted ...

friend was working in the mines and the house was empty, no-one was staying there, I stayed in that house and I made an area assessment before other comrades could arrive. After that, after I left Welkom, or after I left Wesselsbron, I went back to Welkom, because I told him that I didn't like ...