comrades

comrades who were extremely active in Mamelodi at that time, but who then moved out to KwaNdebele as

... 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 ...

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

It would also be common cause that at the time of the applicant's actions, that the applicant, together with his other comrades, were actively involved in the liberation struggle for South Africa and their motive and their actions were based mainly on having freed and having liberated their ...

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.

... 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 ...

FATHER MKHATSWA: No, except with the individuals, individual comrades.

... 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 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.

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.

... 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.

... 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 ...

should take him. The way I saw him it was not that he could still live. Oh, God take him. I can’t tell anything further. All the news are with the "comrades", they helped me a lot. Myself being one of them. They buried him for me and never heard anything further from them or any progress as I ...