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CasspirExplanation MR NOSENGA: I saw four casspirs, but I cannot be certain of the number of the Police Officers. I only knew the people who were in my casspir. CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR STRYDOM: (continued) Thank you Mr Chairperson. Mr Nosenga, when you entered the township in the casspir now, did you see any people or any person of the township walking around or standing around? A Defence Force Casspir was to transport us and we were also to be conveyed in this bus. That is the way it actually happened. MR NOSENGA: They were transported in the casspir. We came back on foot, and the induna's and the Police were travelling back to the hostel in this casspir. MR FUCHS: I went with a group of people in this specific combi to the scene where the casspir accompanied us and there was probably one vehicle, a bakkie, which also went along. (iv) When we got out of the hostel onto the road we were picked up by a police casspir driven by a white man whose name I don't know. In the Hippo there was Chaka of the security branch, a white policeman known to me as Rooikop who had red hair, Peens and our driver. There were fourteen or ... MR BALOYI: A casspir is a smaller vehicle. MS PRETORIUS: Mr Baloyi, the first time you realised that the people in the black clothes walking along the street with the balaclavas, the first time you thought they were white people was when the white man in the Casspir loaded the body into the Casspir, is that correct? MR NOSENGA: I am saying I cannot recall, but I know I took them to Sebokeng, Zone 12. I was in a Casspir and they were travelling in private vehicles. I also went to Djomo's place, the place that I said was a shebeen. I don't know what other places he is talking about. ... with my friends, but not in the main road where people were toi-toiing in the other street. While we were still in that street, police came with a Casspir and they came to watch us. They had binoculars with them. They came to the place where we were staying. As we see the Casspir was ... After some time there was some silence. When I applied the brake to stop I heard a casspir stopping at my back and I ran and stood where I was and I heard the shots being fired. I don't know how one of them got out of the combi. I saw that he fell on the other side of the road. I don't know ... "He ordered that a Casspir be driven over the hut in which this Commissar was hiding and that the team open fire into the rubble of that hut. The Commissar was subsequently pulled out of that rubble and handed to me for treatment. The only reason why I know he was a Commissar was because at that ... ... me, I asked him if he wants to join the hit squad and he said and he agreed. Whilst working in Imbali Police Station, Constable Singh came with the casspir and we wanted to go and see Mr Zuma. So it was Constable Singh, Constable Indaba, Williams and myself, proceeded to Zuma's ... CAPT BOKABA: Sir, are you saying there was a possibility that I would see Ngo as they were driving in a Casspir and I would certainly say that is Ngo in the Casspir? GRANTED AMNESTY: for the theft of the Casspir; With regard to the other applicants who were with him in the casspir, it is reasonable and fair to say they acted on his orders. True, he did not in so many words order them to shoot, but when he opened such ferocious fire they must have construed that as a signal to do the same. One must bear in ... While I was on leave my unit, Zulu India, was involved in an ambush and the casspir which I would have been in, and the place where I would have been sitting, my replacement had his legs blown off. "I also saw two police vehicles, one Nyala and one casspir, escorting the group of people. The police in the Nyala shot a white flare into the air." MR PRETORIUS: I was in the casspir. ... the only possible escape route would according to this map, be in a northerly direction into the river bed, because in front of them would be the casspir, to the right was a game fence which they couldn't penetrate, that is to the south, so if they tried to escape in that direction, we would ... |