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CasspirExplanation ... phoned his house, he wanted to report what was going on. Nobody answered the phone in his house. He phoned the neighbours and he was told that a Casspir had arrived with soldiers. They said that a soldier's Casspir arrived, the doors were kicked and they broke the doors and they took his wife ... ... 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 ... ... 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. ... 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 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 ... 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. ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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? When was this, what time was it when you were knocked by a Casspir? --- It was at 2:00 p.m. MR MKHULUTHA: Yes, that is my evidence. Because they also got into the kombi and we saw them alighting from the police casspir, that was Mr Mpisane and the policeman. ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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. ... MR McBRIDE: Thank you Mr Chairperson. Yes, I told them that they should attack enemy personnel, there was a casspir also they were told to attack. For both the handgrenade attacks, army, police, collaborators, that is as far as I can remember. I can just add also, I had given them instructions ... we saw quite a number of vans passing up the road. It was Sergeant du Toit in his own van, together with his policemen, and there was also a police Casspir. We followed them to the police station and we got to the police station at the same time. We spoke to the station commander once more and ... ... things were happening some of the police were just standing outside the hostel. At the time of the explosion some of those police ran into their Casspir, some ran together with me to hide behind the office which I just explained ... |