toyi-toyi

CHAIRPERSON: Ntombomzi, where you were playing did you see a toyi-toyi?

ADV POTGIETER: And it also appears from the statement in our possession that he was never part of the, even part of the toyi-toyi that was going on?

MS MAKI: Where we were, there was a toyi-toyi at the taxi rank. We heard shots and I fell and had a blackout. The police, Municipal police, took me and threw me in a police van and went to drop me at the old clinic office.

MR KOTI: It had to do with the toyi-toyi because some elements within the group, were criminal elements and while the toyi-toyi was taking place, they would participate with the intention of - with criminal intentions.

MISS TSILI: At the time there were school boycotts. There are schools in our streets, Andrew Moyake and Natalenyawusa High School. On this particular day all the people came from Josa to join the boycott. Students would not wear their uniforms, it was about nine or ten on that day. We were ...

CHAIRPERSON: Yes we can assume they were toyi-toyiing, they were coming down the road singing, toyi-toyiing, he obviously heard them so he obviously had an idea of what was coming.

MR BHAYI: I'd like to say myself, the role that I was playing even in the community whenever I see people toyi toying, I used to go there and join the toyi toyi because I used to love it and even when they were going to these places no one pulled me along but I just said it to join them.

On the 24th February we received a message that we must go and safeguard a meeting. That was an ANC meeting. It was going to occur at Noshesi area. We took a police van, we went there and at Noshesi. When we arrived there we found supporters of ANC and they were marching and singing, toyi-toyi ...

MR RICHARD: Now, on the mountain, were people singing, toyi-toying?

There was a huge truck there with - he had other men. I don't know where these men came from. Mlungisi was ill-treated and beaten up as a comrade. They said that they did not want toyi-toyi in the village. He perhaps can clarify and say who it is exactly who beat him up.

just toyi-toying. And the whites would see us toyi-toying

MR MENERA: As I've explained that these gangsters, the operations that they carried out, the aims or objectives of these gangsters or the aims of the former gangsters of Mr Phelane was to shut the ANC down in Brandfort, that there's be no one talk about AN or shout Viva or toyi-toyi around ...

MR MAHLANGU: It was, they were toyi-toying and singing and after they surrounded her, they started singing louder.

W VANDOYI: No. There was nothing happening on that day, there was no toyi-toyi on that day.

So they asked me to toyi-toyi and I told them I couldn't. A police by the name of Malunga kicked me and asked me to toyi-toyi, then I told them I wasn't going to.

MR MNGOMEZULU: Even though I can for certainty say so but I think I would say he attended rallies during marches and he toyi-toyied around with us.

MS KAMA: In 1985 we were not aware of riots at that time. Lulama Kama did not do anything. There was a meeting of the Councillors at Nyibiba with the residents. There was conflict in that meeting between the Councillors and the residents. On the following week the children were toyi-toying in ...

Even the Comrades don't know where he is? --- I didn't ask them, Sir. According to your daughter who was here in South Africa did she tell you why your son was shot by the police? --- She told me that they were in a mass action toyi-toyiing during the unrest at Odendaal.

MR LUMKO: No, they never came to my place, they used to move up and down chanting toyi-toyi songs.

MR MAHAYIYA: Yes, there were things that she was doing at the time and in the toyi-toyi's she would be seen there toyi-toying.