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comradesExplanation You say you were requested by Mr Mpo Tseklo(?) to transport his fellow comrades. 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 ... 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 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 ... 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? 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. 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. ... 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 ... 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 ... MR VISSER: Nceba, the one victim in this matter and his two comrades, were they part of any of these structures which you have mentioned here in paragraph 18? That's when I met him with his comrades like Atwell Maqekeza, Tandofiqa Radebe, but Tandofiqa Radebe was a student there. The others from Grahamstown Maswai, Siphiwo Maswai, they were all working together and I had contact with him. ... 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 ... 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: ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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 ... ADV SANDI: Did you take any steps to inquire from your comrades as to what could have happened to those items? |