Hippo

MS KAMA: We as the family, we are waiting for people to come home, the hippo came together with the Councillors' cars. The police were also there. The car was in front of the hippo. They then shot at us while we were in our yard.

The next day at one o'clock in the night a Hippo stopped outside. Many police were inside the Hippo. They got out and they surrounded my house. I was peeping through the window. Some of them lied on the grass and they pointed their long guns at my house. Some of them knocked at the door, I ...

MS JOKAZI: No, nobody told me who they were. It's only the child on the 12th of August, when we were burying the child we came across the hippo, this child started running away when he saw the hippos, he said my uncle these are the police who shot and killed my mother, those were the police.

I ran to tell my mother who was walking, following Lungelwa. When the policeman could not find her, they hippo drove towards the New Brighton, they took her out and they burnt her.

... and people were holding a meeting there so I went there with my luggage. Whilst we were standing outside in a group, policemen came driving in a hippo. And we alerted those inside, the policemen came and did not say anything, they just chased and dispersed us throwing tear ...

MR LEWIN: You say that he was shot from - was this from a Hippo?

MR MNYAKENI: Thereafter we were told that a hippo was approached, and we fled to our shacks.

... let the students have a picket inside the school. We locked the gate in Sekamantwana but the police came. They first shot the lock open then the hippo drove through the gate, and as they were driving in they were actually shooting from the windows. ...

... in December 1985 (he was 16 years of age) whilst moving with two of his friends who managed to escape. He was beaten up and thrown in to the hippo by the South African Defence Force soldiers, who dropped him at Algoa Park police station.That ultimately laid basis for his recruitment. ...

... on patrolling, and at that time we saw a caspar from which they threw tear gas canisters and even shot at us. We ran into the nearby yards and the hippo or the caspar went away. Thereafter we saw a brown combi, the one that was mentioned before, and the caspar came back without the brown toyota ...

MR STRYDOM: Just to get clarity, do you know a hippo vehicle?

They found him. He was asleep by then. When he woke up I wanted to give him a trouser, but they denied. Then they took him with his underwear. Then they hit him with their rifle butts. They took him to the Hippo.

... Steven Matkloko, he said to me, the bitch is also among the group. They picked me up and threw me into the Landrover. There was a Landrover and a Hippo outside the ...

... during the vigils they didn't want political vigils, they just wanted the ordinary prayers and even at his funeral at the cemetery there were hippo's and rovers and he was buried and after his burials, after three days, police came they wanted the death certificate and without thinking I ...

who were actually chasing the IFP, they came in large numbers and they shot at us in the hostel, up to the shacks. They were chasing us with their hippo's and others were running after us and we went to the nearest veld and they kept on shooting at us. That is the ...

MR FALTEIN: I don't know where these police came from. They were driving in a Hippo, but I am not sure which direction it came from. We started running away as soon as 2 it/...

... if they do we might be in danger. When we looked on the one side we saw a Coyoko and when we looked again we saw a police van. We saw and a Hippo and a police van. There were police there who were shooting and there was no way we could get there so we remained in the house and about five ...

... us and then the caspar came, soldiers saying that we must, must control the crowd. When we got to, next to Crave, next to Crave Meat Industries a hippo, the vans hooted at us and when we were about the corner I heard gunshots. When I looked up I saw a car, a red car, it was coming towards us. ...

MR RADEBE: First of all, there was a time after we combined with the unit from Polla Park, certain policemen were shot at night, and the Hippo, the police vehicle, Caspir that is, was, we took it and we used it to go to Katuza.

MS PLAATJIES: I saw a hippo. It was full of policemen.