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comradesExplanation MR ISMAIL: Well, by and large, comrades were told to resist answering questions, they were told that they would probably be beaten up, tortured, that at all times, they should think about the ANC and be loyal to the ANC and understand the political objectives. They had to understand that they ... Tifo who is our lawyer, comrade Paul Benjamin. These are our lawyers that work very close to us during the Apartheid time. Leon Levi is one of the comrades that have played a very important role in our ... friend was working in the mines and the house was empty, no-one was staying there, I stayed in that house and I made an area assessment before other comrades could arrive. After that, after I left Welkom, or after I left Wesselsbron, I went back to Welkom, because I told him that I didn't like ... ... with my commander. We reached a decision that in Qwa Qwa we should do something because police are playing a major role in the killings of our comrades, we do something so that we should send the message to their masters and their bosses to tell them that what they are doing is not ... comrades who were extremely active in Mamelodi at that time, but who then moved out to KwaNdebele as 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 ... 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 ... That is when they told that my child had been taken away by the comrades and taken to a mortuary in a van. First Applicant was the first one to go inside with an axe in hand. he saw Rambo seated in the dining room and proceeded to attack him with an axe. The other comrades then joined in. ADV SANDI: Did you take any steps to inquire from your comrades as to what could have happened to those items? MRS MAGQAGQA: Yes, there were people who came to assist me with regard to the burial and the Comrades were also present and there were also women who might have been from the Women’s League or from different societies. They came to assist. This happened when we rushed to the place where we heard that there was a cry. We discovered that there was one of our comrades who was at the back of the van. And then this gentleman pulled the car along the street. During the period there were lot of people who were coming around and we wanted ... MR HLONGWANE:: First of all, people cannot identify me. I can infiltrate the enemy and secondly, I can run faster. I look like a comrade. I also run faster than the rest of my comrades. Thirdly, I can jump the highest fences and I am also brave. 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 ... MR DLAMINI: I will then enquire from the IFP leader, from that area, because these people were actually his comrades, so I will check with him. ... ended up saying to me, you follow James Mahlangu and you don't want to listen to us the way they wanted us. They said they were going to burn the comrades if they don't listen to them. They released us, they didn't do anything to us that day. We went back home. On the 12th June 1986, it was ... |