Hippo

... 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 ...

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 ...

... home. When he passed in the direction of our home, he was standing and other children were there. At home they were toyi-toying. Then the Hippo passed, the first one passed. Then it turned at the circle. Then it returned to Makweti. The second police van passed again. Then one ...

... 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 ...

MR BUCWA: They were standing and showing up on top of the hippo and the first shooting was the cause of my injury.

(iv) When we got out of the hostel onto the road we were picked up by a police casspir driven by a white man whose name I don't know. In the Hippo there was Chaka of the security branch, a white policeman known to me as Rooikop who had red hair, Peens and our driver. There were fourteen or ...

... and the police were on the road. We were delayed on our way to Cradock. We decided to go back home. In the morning, after the funeral, I saw a Hippo in front of my house. There were soldiers in that Hippo. They wanted me, they took me to the Hippo. I was on my way to work at that time. ...

disappearance and I told them that the Hippos were running around the township, people saw the Hippo running down to the bushes. I didn't know what it was carrying. Maybe my child was also carried in the Hippo. His father gave me the money so I travelled to the government mortuary. I took a taxi ...

can you please rush to the police station. Jackson was in the police hippo. We don't know what happened, we were just in the meeting. I went to the police station, on my arrival nobody happened. They said to me can you report this matter to the police station otherwise if you don't they are ...

One day when this violence was still continuing the hippos came. We thought that they were there to bring peace but we were doubting the white policemen. And in that hippo with other, the police from elsewhere came to bring about peace in the area. We realised that those police in the hippo, ...

... doctors took me to the theatre to operate me. I stayed for two weeks and the third week, when I was going to the township, I met police in their Hippo. People were running away. I was still in pain at that time. When I tried to run away the police came. They took me to the Hippo. When I ...

... me, blind folded me and then took me to Mpuduli where there was soldiers' camps and when I arrived there, it was Soroloss, they tied me behind a hippo, the hippo that they used to sprinkle water with, I was naked and as was blindfolded behind the hippo there were stones that were uncomfortable ...

MS NOKIE: We were on our way to the graveyard. We went down Maduna Road and there was a Hippo following us. We went past Mittles shop down 16th Avenue and we stood there singing. There was a hippo in front of us and behind us and there was also a Rastafarian that was in front who was telling us ...

... I tried to crawl. I was looking around for Lawrence Zimu as to where he was hiding. Fortunately I located him. There was a police vehicle, the Hippo, the one we refer to as a Hippo. It was going that sound. They were taking the cattles. You see mine were taken on the 28th, now on the 29th ...

... your face. They asked us where we were coming from and we told them and they said we were lying and that we would see. What helped us was that a hippo was coming in our direction and we were saved by the fact that they misunderstood this hippo to be saying that they should go. If that had not ...

... the house that was burnt was Mr Pops’ house and on the very same night, the police came and they were together with the soldiers. They came in a Hippo. They came to arrest us. We were forcefully taken away. They didn’t even explain anything. They just put all of us on top of the Hippo. It ...

Policemen came in a hippo - and they said they wanted to ask us something so I asked them why they couldn’t ask us where we were and they said no they want us to go down. So they put us all into the hippo and we drove down to the police station and there they took out a list of names of people and ...

... then? --- We ran, the two of us, and we got a taxi. When we headed for Trebol it was just chaos in Trebol, because we drove past a police Hippo, but we didn't know who the occupants of the Hippo were. It was just chaos. My mother was lying on the floor, and our mothers were being ...

We then went there. When we got there it was packed with people. Steven Mgezwa was called out to pray. He prayed. When he said amen there was a hippo that came. The police said, they said we must disperse. They had sjamboks in their hands. People ran away, going towards the fence, I then ...

... and said no, if these kids are really going to Khayelitsha, let's take them to jail instead. And they argued for a long time and then there was a Hippo which passed. It was written B6. Whilst these old gentlemen were doing this to us, there was this B6 Hippo with some boers in it. They took ...