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CasspirExplanation ... was someone standing next to me I asked him what was going on and he pointed in front of me and said I must look. As I looked there was a Hippo a Casspir turning towards the main street going to Mount Ruth. At the time there was a group of soldiers walking down from people’s houses. As I was ... ... patrolling since the 6th on a Saturday until 2 o'clock. Whilst we were sitting in watch when normally the disruptions would start, we saw a police Casspir which was far in the distance and it stood next to some trees in some open veld in ...(indistinct) and some people alighted from that Casspir ... ... persuaded the police to try and send a vehicle up to ward off the impi they showed now fear, and in fact they tried to fall in line behind the Casspir, a scene that I had seen on many occasions in the past. In other words they saw the Casspir not as an impediment, but as an escort. ... MR STRYDOM: Whilst you are in that area, did you see any Casspir vehicles there and did you get into a Casspir vehicle and were you transported to Boipatong? ... with the back of the rifle. I told him to break all the windows. He insulted me and he put a gun in my neck. I stopped talking. After a while a casspir came, after a Casspir and then an ambulance came. I was taken to the ... ... shortly after the killing of the Guguletu 7, in May of 1996, police liaison officer - Lieutenant Attie Loubser - came and I was being held in the Casspir, and he asked the other policemen to leave the Casspir and then he said - listen, and then he warned me - he said police had been drafted in ... And then there was a - at a stage there was also a Casspir because when we - that’s right - remember correctly when we pulled the body over we placed the Casspir between us and the body. And where the casspir was supposed to be, where they said it was, it is true, it is also concealed. The left hand side, when you are from Botswana, there are bushes all over so that you can hide yourself. What I deduce is that the casspir was not more than 10 metres away from the combi when it ... 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 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. 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 ... MS MADONDO: Yes. Protea police used to come, some they will come by Casspir and they would just playing with our minds because they knew where he was. ... 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 ... ... at that stage. I went to see them and we made use of their facilities because early morning, before the light of day, we would drive with the Casspir to the bush which was next to the road where we disembarked and went into the bush, where we would be picked up again in the ... MR VISSER: And you have also confirmed as it was put to you, that there was a warning system, a whistle system. As soon as a policeman or a casspir or a buffel had entered into a black area, whistles were blown and the whole area would know. ... to do so one of the police called Vusi Maduna and asked him to tell them that they should disperse. Vusi climbed up the police vehicle, a Casspir, and said "Comrades, these boers say you must disperse now". Mnyandu says he and other comrades were very shocked by this behaviour of ... ... 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 ... ... us, as he says he was able to give the Supreme Court in a matter that came before those courts related to these events, detailed accounts of the casspir numbers, what they did, including firing at Comrades whilst the Witdoeke were being given an opportunity thereby to attack the comrades, are ... ... 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 ... |