Casspir

MR MODISE: In the evening, we went on board a casspir and we drove towards the border.

MR LOOTS: Chairperson, the terrain from Zeerust to the place where we had to cross the border, is very bushy, thorn trees, lots of thorn trees and it is not a general open road to the border. We also had to use a casspir vehicle which moved relatively slowly and this also was quite time consuming.

... you know for the first time being in the bush, you know, you come across a serious fight. So Strongman was able to take out the MGM from the Casspir, you know, from the Hippo and jump outside and fire effectively up to ...(indistinct) where he could stabilise the enemy and Mr Coetzee, when ...

CHAIRPERSON: When you went to this house that night, you said there were about ten of you. Did you go in a number of vehicle, a Casspir?

All that I heard when I came home, the people told me that the Casspir came down Eisleben Road. And down Westpoort Avenue and it turned left at the robots, and then somebody jumped out, ran up and then from the house they shot over the vibracrete wall into the school grounds.

... in that plot where you couldn't run away? --- No, I was on my way to the shop and lots of people were singing and toi-toiing in the street and the casspir was following them. Then they said the people had to disperse. They did not disperse and they started shooting teargas. I ran away last of ...

Then somebody said - that these boers in the Casspir were trying to protect themselves, because they were not safe. People were throwing stones. I asked if there was no other way they could have protected themselves, then shooting my son in the head. There should have been a way to protect ...

And there I found a cordoned off scene with a Casspir in the middle. I think the police had roped it off, whatever it was, it was a cordoned off scene and the crowd had gathered around. I am uncertain as to whether there was still bodies on the road - in the course of my reporting duties we have ...

... came at home on the 27th of December 1991. They took us near the school. When we got to the school, they would take us and transfer us to the casspir while beating us. They would make us lay down under the chairs and they were assaulting us all this time. They said that I was a ...

to ask them to resign and subsequent to that, police were called and we were in Jimmy Chauke’s house and the police arrived and they came on their Casspir. They just started off shooting and as they were shooting we also retaliated. We threw some stones to them. We were throwing stones and ...

... killed this young boy. I phoned the Paballelo police station twice to inform them that I had shot somebody. The following policemen arrived in a casspir - Inspector Swanepoel, Fanie Burger and Tarrie Smith [Tarrie, Tarrie, that's correct] and Captain Botha. Inspector Swanepoel congratulated ...

... and I was shot by the police. I crossed a backyard and coming out on the other side I was shot. The police picked me up there, put me in the casspir and took me to hospital but on my way to hospital I lost consciousness. That was on the 15th and only on the 26th June I regained ...

You said a Casspir arrived. Were there any people arrestedamongst the group? Were there any arrests made on that particular day? --- No,they never arrested anyone. They didn't even make a follow-up, none whatsoever.

... I should join them, I should help them, support them while they were singing. Yes, I joined them and I started singing along with them. A police Casspir approached from the west. That was a Hippo. It was approaching from a direction just not far from where we were, and a second Hippo ...

their matters, their organisation's matters. They had beenarrested. Now we don't know who called the Casspir from Harrismith. They justcame and shot, but there wasn't any altercation. There was absolutely nothingthat - the policeman said they were stoning his house, but that's unbelievablebecause ...

... opportunity in Ovamboland, where there were UN troops, peace flags were blowing and the troops were shooting everything that was remotely a Koevoet Casspir, it might have been a sense of paranoia which accompanies this kind of situation, we had the same situation in Russia, where the Russian ...

... riots outside. We were sitting in the lounge and I went out to go and see what was happening in the street. I had just got off the stoop when the Casspir came around Misbus Street and went up Vraagom Street. I was standing there watching and I just felt something struck my face and my face had ...

appeal. The 2 of us went to court, the court proceedings went on and yet again the findings were such that the children were throwing stones at the Casspir. ...

... house. They asked for my mother, my sister told them that my mother was in the neighbour’s house. They went and took her to that house in their casspir. They took her together with Zolisha Siyo, my cousin to the Headman. When they arrived in the Headman’s place, they assaulted her She ...

come in. At that time there were some Hippos coming in because there was the Sybil's house had been burnt down and the creche, maybe that's why the Casspir in. They saw in, then they ran away. But I didn't trust that they had all gone. ...