toyi-toyi

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

MR HLONGWANE: And then Zekele then said that the person who was dressed like that must be killed and then we were going down the main road, we were actually toyi-toying doing this low dance from the meeting. As we were coming down the road we passed the Masigani stop and when we arrived there by ...

MR XABA: On the 23rd January 1993 my brother-in-law came, I’m talking here about Gumene, and he said to me that we would have to go to a funeral, a funeral where a certain Khumalo lady was to be buried. I refused because I was not prepared to go there, I had some other things to do. But he came ...

MR SITHOLE: At about 3 a.m. after they had followed the first group to the shack where I directed them to, I heard this toyi toyi outside, up until around five in the morning, since three in the morning. At six I woke up, as I was waking up, it was just before Magwaza appeared and this toyi toyi ...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In the afternoon we went to Masesames School, but I did not get inside, I stood outside, because it was full in the room. So we talked that they were forcing us to be taught in Afrikaans, so we toyi-toyed and I decided to go home.

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.

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

He said that there were no riots, they were just toyi-toying. It was not all the people from the township, it was only a small group because we are two groups in the township. It was only kids. Then the police came, then Flemming shot me. I was actually shot by Flemming, my son said. Then my ...

MRS MAPOGO: In 1990, on the 7th of March it was at about past eleven, he was from work. He found these children where they were playing, but there was no fighting. He was from his mother's home to his younger brother's home. When he passed in the direction of our home, he was standing and other ...

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

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.