comrades

MR NGCOBO: I wouldn't be able to know because it was never ascertained, but what I ascertained was that they were killing comrades. Why comrades were being killed, I also didn't know, all I know is that IFP and the ZPs were killing the comrades.

MRS NQOBE: In 1986 on the 16th of June it was a Sunday. Comrades came into my home. I was at home together with the members of my family. They wanted our brother here and he was not available and they said they discussed something because there were a lot of girls outside. And then they said ...

before the 14th of August. There was a conflict between the ANC and the IFP. The week before I was injured there was a funeral of three Comrades at Ratanda. On the day of the funeral more Comrades were shot by the IFP members and thereafter we decided that there should be a self-defence unit ...

... I could see that he was a kind of a person who died fighting. Brian was buried. I will leave the story. Brian was buried with the support of the comrades. It was a very big mass funeral. The funeral could not take place in Tembisa but had to take place in Soweto because Ndatema Gulu wanted ...

Myself and other comrades then took an initiative of addressing the problems at school due to the oppressive laws that prevailed at the time, we could not operate normally and our arrest and detention became inevitable. We then became very sensitive to the comrades who betrayed us or people who ...

not get into the township anymore. There was not any link anymore between the Moutse people and the police. Now there was this communication. The comrades would spread their pamphlets. The police would also retaliate by spreading their pamphlets. The police would come and control the ...

... but it appears that I am just going to die hitting in bed. Fortunately, while I was still having these thoughts and these blackouts, I heard some Comrades speaking in the distance. That was Africa was a section commissa. He said maybe I was then affectionately called Phyilo - Philosophy. I was ...

... this gang was terrorising the community. The name of the gang was Noxies Gang. And again the other name was Bad Boys. We tried in many occasions as comrades to negotiate with the Police, that they should try to discourage this gang to continue with their activities. Then the Police didn't listen ...

We had a problem of how to report the incident to his family, and therefore I said to Mr Ndlaba that we will say that he had been killed by the Comrades. We went to the family and expressed our regrets and told them that he had been killed by the enemy.

... it would look like we'd been hit or knocked down by a car and they also wrote a letter to my father indicating that my father had given birth to comrades and therefore his lifespan would be ...

MR JILI: The reason was we were not supposed to sell other comrades. We knew from long time that if you were arrested as a comrade you must die alone, you mustn't reveal other comrades.

... people that were running past me and I shouted for help, asking people to please help me get up and remove me from where I was and there were those comrades who were running with us who heeded my call of distress and they came to me and asked me what happened comrade and I said to them I don't ...

MR MAZIBUKO: There was a fight between myself and fellow comrades.

... and prejudice the apartheid system. We heard that fire was raging in Sasol and they announced both Sasols although then I didn't know, my fellow comrades they were also part of this coordination of attack. We were highly, you know, motivated and highly encouraged to fight ...

... know how and they said he seemed to be mad. Well, it was on that occasion that I said to them seeing that I do have a job and I do trust that the comrades do help one another, may I request that you go and find out exactly what happened. If the situation means that in your view it requires a ...

After some time it was quiet and I then went back again. When I went back after some time, when I arrived, Johannes Selai was arrested by the comrades and they were asking him questions, beating him up, saying that he was an informer because he was with the people from the other side and at the ...

Mr Andrews, Mr McBride tells me that the general understanding amongst the comrades in Wentworth and in political circles around Wentworth was that in human rights trials, political trials like the one you were involved in when you became a state witness against your comrades, it was generally ...

... firing from outside the tavern. Mabala had not thrown the grenade as he was supposed to do, claiming that if he did so he would have killed his comrades. Sebeko appears to have fired at the buildings across the street - that’s the Club Planet or something like that. Makebo was at all times ...

MS MKHIZE: When I say how did he live, is what kind of a child, when he wakes up early in the morning where did he go? Others are going to school, others are going to work, what was he doing? Was he together with the comrades? Was he befriending the comrades?

As Mr Lyster has said this story relates to your abduction, and in your instance attempted killing, and the killing of your three comrades on 5 December 1986. --- Yes.