comrades

The six day war expelled the police from Alex. Black policemen were seen as siding with the oppressor, and they were no longer welcome in the community. Comrades and people’s courts took over the keeping of law and order. // But in April the police came back to wreak havoc. //

Now this group of killers left and the Comrades came thereafter. When they arrived they called us all back. They said ‘please come back from your hiding place there …’ I searched all over the shack area for my wife and my child, I couldn’t find them and another person told me that ‘I’ve ...

... The first person they met was Philip Matela who is now asking for amnesty for their murder. // They said to me they were looking for the ANC comrades and we knew that the right wingers and the Russian vigilante group were going to attack people in the ...

... including one in London and the killing of more than 40 people. According to this list at least three policemen were killed by their own comrades. A whole list of other explosions are also mentioned: Khotso House, Joubert Park, JG Strydom hospital, a community centre in Cape Town and ...

Or those still haunted by the horror of a death at the hands not of the enemy, but comrades. The smoke of the necklace or the shining panga still sticking through their dreams.

... will always be a hero. // This week at the Truth Commission it was a mother’s turn to speak of her son who had disappeared. And for his former comrades to remember him. // The picture that I have in my mind is exactly the picture of a promising young leader then, who could have been a ...