comrades

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.

... the caspar. I ran to ask why they shot him to which they replied that they did so because they thought he was a comrade. I asked them whether the comrades were labelled and they asked why he did attend the school the previous day. I replied that they should go to the school to find out whether ...

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.

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.

... 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 ...

... 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 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.

MS LOCKHAT: Is it correct that you were the person that informed your other comrades in relation to the activities of Mr Monamodi?

student organisation, they will either ensure that some of their informers cause ethnicity where people are not going to see themselves as you know, comrades in one organisation but where they are going to see themselves as you know, Xhosas, Sothos and all that and that was one of their ...

No answer was given. During the time Police were busy with investigations of investigating people who were well known, children and comrades.

MR ARENDSE: Just for the record, this is the same person that has been referred to by your other comrades, Power, Mzala, Jones, is this one and the same person?

MR MAHLANGU: I was responsible for taking her out of the car and then after that, I left her in the hands of comrades and I didn't do anything.

ADV SANDI: Did you take any steps to inquire from your comrades as to what could have happened to those items?

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 ...

corpses. Then I did find my grandson. Then the person responsible gave me a letter, then I came back home. When I came home the comrades said that that is our person, so we will see what to do. They took the paper, then they said we will bury him.

am a trained soldier, I had a weapon, I had a responsibility as a member of the ANC to protect lives, first my own life and secondly the lives of my comrades and colleagues and thirdly, the building and those who were in it so I could not turn my back and run when I had that obligation and that ...

... DUBE: Firstly, the situation that prevailed at that time was that of war in the country. Secondly, as a commander I had to provide security for my comrades and for myself. Thirdly, logistics was also a very important matter and one was not able to take other options. That is why I say at the ...

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.

Applicant justified the killing of the deceased because he and his comrades believed that:

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 ...