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comradesExplanation MR NJIYELA: Okay. They gathered in a block called Block G, and the comrades gathered in a hall. I do not remember how many days, but I think three days. 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. MS LOCKHAT: Is it correct that you were the person that informed your other comrades in relation to the activities of Mr Monamodi? ... 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. 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. ... the liberation organisations, was able to return to South Africa as part of the APLA High Command. He does not know the present whereabouts of his comrades who participated when these acts were planned and carried out. He states that he heard that Small Baby and Tello died recently. He was the ... You say you were requested by Mr Mpo Tseklo(?) to transport his fellow comrades. 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. ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ... with the other unmarked ones, I only remember the beers were supplied. The afternoon of the raid, Teddy brought a message that Leon and other comrades wanted to see me. I went to see them. They wanted me to take them to Bloemfontein on the Saturday morning. I was supposed to meet them at ... "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." 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? That is when they told that my child had been taken away by the comrades and taken to a mortuary in a van. I went back to the stadium and I reported to my fellow Comrades what took place and they said that we are going to meet at seven o' clock after the rally where I should prepare a statement and then they will consult a lawyer. Seven o' clock I could not make it. I slept at home, because of the ... 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 KNOPP: Were they co-members or comrades of yours? |