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comradesExplanation MS SOLANI: On the 28 December 1989, it was in the morning, 6:15, comrades came to my house and knocked and they said to me that they wanted Vusumzi. He left with them, as parents we followed. When they were in front, they were next to the Galmen stores. There was teargas, there were police ... ADV SANDI: Did you take any steps to inquire from your comrades as to what could have happened to those items? MR NCAMAZANA: I cannot remember well who they were because I was not called then to receive those people, I only got the message from other comrades who were called by those. We were asked to go to Roodepoort at the police station where some corpses were. We informed the Comrades that Pumsele had passed away and that we had no money to bury him. Dan made a donation. We first went to Roodepoort to try and find him and he was there. After that he was buried. ... Friday the 9th of May 1986 I assisted Robert to transport Gordon Webster and his girlfriend Anne to Botswana where they were then transported by MK comrades to a safe-house in ... MR SINDANE: Well I understood him, when I was introduced to him first of all, that he was befriended by my comrades and to me he very much looked like a Swazi citizen. ... that he made common cause with one Sipho Pungola who was believed to be an askari and further that he was responsible for the death of one of the comrades and intimidated and robbed people. In the context of the then prevailing circumstances this was associated with ... And then he was locked up for holding an illegal gathering. Whilst he was in detention, they wouldn't let Eric be detained with the other comrades. He had to be alone in a cell. And Eric was fighting for that, because he wanted to be with the others. They said to him, you're not supposed to ... ... interfering with one of the informers, Mr Mlongwane and you assaulted him, because he had confronted Mr Mlongwane about testifying against fellow comrades and you assaulted and Mr Pitse was assaulting him at the same time, because Mr Jack had disrupted a meeting of Chief Lucas Mangope, of Chief ... MR NHLAPO: We chased her, we brought her back to the house and he was shot at in the house. It was myself and the other comrades that were there. MR MTHEMBU: According to the Judgement in your case, it would appear that you and your other comrades first assembled in ...[indistinct] where apparently this attack on the Three Million was planned. What do you say about that? ... East Rand where he came from, was a focal issue. He was drawn into this conflict as a member of the Vosloorus community. He and some of his local comrades bought firearms with money that in part came from business people in the community. The purpose of purchasing these firearms was to protect ... ... during May of 1977, it became clear from newspaper reports that I was likely to be involved in the second Breytenbach trial. We discussed it with comrades in Johannesburg and a decision was taken that we should join the ANC's external ... "As we were the comrades of that time, we tried by all means to democratise our Black people who were still living in the 'barrack'" is the best way I can read it "people where Black people were freed from mental slavery." my business place. Some Comrades were left behind. MR KNOPP: Were they co-members or comrades of yours? That is when they told that my child had been taken away by the comrades and taken to a mortuary in a van. MS PADIACHEY: Mr Khanyile, you have noted that there has been ongoing violence in Greytown at this stage, did you or any of your other comrades at this time do anything to assist or to hinder the violence in this area at this time? ... pseudonym. He told them that I was going to be the Commander. He said that they would get instructions from me, or details from me. I saluted my comrades. I asked them their pseudonyms and they told me. They left after that. So there was another soldier. He told me that and that was ... No answer was given. During the time Police were busy with investigations of investigating people who were well known, children and comrades. |