sjambok

I was beaten with the sjambok. The stuffed me in a mello-yellow, I pretended that I had died. They were burning me with cigarette butts, I have wounds on my head still. I do not have all my teeth - my set was affected - they kicked me in the mouth.

MR R.B. CELE: No, I cannot remember because a lot of people partook in the lashing of those people. There were about 600 people present. You would give them a lash and give the sjambok to another person until they had received their number that had been decided upon.

an elderly lady from Umlazi. She had been in detention previously, I think, also under Section Six and she had been severely beaten. She still had sjambok marks on her back. I would just maybe ask the Commissioners to see if they can find out what has happened to Gladys and, you know, whether ...

speak first and not ourselves, we thought is correct for us to come and hear in silence this time the screams, the begging for mercy as electricity, sjambok, knobkierrie was tearing both the human body and soul. All these things in exile and underground in prison we did experience, but the ...

poles. They said I must get out from the car and I must put my hands around the poles. And when I tried to do that they started hitting me using a sjambok, and then they said these two black policemen must hold my hands so that they can beat me. They went on and on beating me. They were not ...

They came that night for me. Again, it was the same, same person who was the same person, Rooi Otto all the time. I was sjambokked that night at Alexandra Police Station. There were other people being tortured whom I can never know who they were, but I know that Marlo Simpumala was also around ...

... would be expected to have acted in 1984, it's basically the same procedure applicable to crowd control situations, there should be maximal use of sjamboks, teargas, rubber bullets etc, I think the rubber sjambok was also prohibited after '84. I may be wrong there. And then batons and ...

MR LAX: So you would kill them, you would sjambok them, what else would you do to them? Anything else, or was that it?

... and other black people was in the past. In the police I became unpopular because I said, let us rather go in with a smile than with a whip and a sjambok. I took those sjamboks out of the police, I said no you simply don't beat people like that, you don't beat people if it's not necessary. So ...

did not stop, because I told him that you are going to beat me. He then assaulted me with the rifle butt. I fell down. After that he beat me with sjambok and then the police left me there. One other police came. He asked me, who are you. I could not talk, because I was swollen ...

"On his back and all over his body with a hoe handle and with a sjambok similar to those used by the SAP. He was assaulted for two days."

... in this context: do you, in order to get the keys, do you have to kill a person. You see, it arises in this context. Couldn't you just get a sjambok, for example, and just hit him and hit him until he tells you where the keys are, rather than kill ...

I gave them a simple answer, would it not be correct to take me to the police station and ask me there? These people were armed, carrying sjamboks, wearing uniforms, khaki uniforms and one of them gave the instruction that I did not want to listen, and what was done to the others should be done ...

MR LAX: You see there's some evidence that Ms Kubheka was being hit with a plastic object, or a rubber hose of some description, or a sjambok-like object and there were sounds of those hits that could be heard outside the building. There's evidence of that. If you were on the veranda you would ...

... They said wake up. Then we were taken with their cars. Then they said, take out your blanket. They said, sit down. A certain man came with a sjambok and said I’m going to hit you with this. He said, sleep. I was moving from the distance from that corner to that corner. I was wet at ...

sure if there is any Comrade who could testify from Cradock he will elaborate as to who was those doctors. 18h00 at night they put on camouflage, a sjambok and he is also part of that shooting and killing. The following morning he is in hospital supposed to treat patients. That was very common ...

... if that information is true and false then you want to know if you were checking that and they will think we're leaking the information and then sjambok ...

MRS SIZILA: They used a sjambok.

but he was pale, pale that time. On his return he was crying telling us he was from Kempton Park Police Station, they beat him, they kick him, they sjambok him there, he said on their way to Kempton Park Station. He was inside of the car's boot. How do you manage it, how do you think. That's ...

... they are white, we hate them because they oppress us. Remove oppression, the hatred will go. It is therefore plain dishonesty to say I hate the sjambok not the person who is yielding it." Can you explain to the Committee what did you mean by ...