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Casspir

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police riot-control and combat vehicle

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... 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 ...
But now, and again the first witness stated that all the shots he heard were from the casspir side and again according to the deploy, the deployment as they were saying, whatever you call it, they were on all angles of the combi except the direction where Sehlwana ran to, so that he could be saved.
... 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 ...
... who were patrolling that area were supporting the ANC. They then got involved in this ploy to throw apples and oranges I think inside the police casspir, and then the police got worried about this, anyway a deal was struck eventually whereby the army, should I say, started assisting them in ...
... a barrage of bullets from the direction of the cross-roads junction from a car that was on the other side, the one that I thought it was a police casspir and they were shooting towards our car therefore it was difficult for us to go back to our own car. We ran and we jumped this high fence, ...
When was this, what time was it when you were knocked by a Casspir? --- It was at 2:00 p.m.
MR MODISE: In the evening, we went on board a casspir and we drove towards the border.
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 ...
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.
MR COETSEE: In brief, what it amounted to was that Sehlwana would still be the driver of the vehicle that the Defence Force would be assisting our members at certain observation points that a casspir of the Defence Force would be made available to be used at the road blockade.
... 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 ...
ADV VISSER: In other words, not from the direction where the casspir was, but from another direction?
... I realised that I took my knife and Thozamele also had his knife. I stabbed him and he turned and he ran away and I also ran away. I saw a police casspir outside. I was lying in the graveyard because the people were pursuing me. When the police van left I went home and when I arrived home I ...
MR DE KOCK: Yes, Chairperson, it could be used for a tank or a Casspir, or to fire at police buildings or fuel storage points. I just wish to make an amendment, next to the RPG7 launcher, I stated that this was three times primary charge, it's actually secondary charge.
... corrugated iron to the site where we were about to build. I was not aware that Hippos were approaching us, four in number, and four bakkies and one Casspir. This girl dropped the corrugated iron and she fled. I decided to stand ...
... policemen. They attacked police stations. Policemen could for example not move into a residential area without being in an armed vehicle, like a Casspir. So it did play a significant ...
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.
... time we knew that those people who were called ...(indistinct), they were members of the IFP. Unfortunately at that time the police arrived in a Casspir, together with the soldiers. That is how Johannes escaped, that is why he's still alive, even ...
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.
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 ...
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