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comradesExplanation 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? 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 ... You say you were requested by Mr Mpo Tseklo(?) to transport his fellow comrades. 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. ... 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 ... 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 ... 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. 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 ... 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. ADV SANDI: Did you take any steps to inquire from your comrades as to what could have happened to those items? 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 ... ... 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 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. ... 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 ... MS LOCKHAT: Is it correct that you were the person that informed your other comrades in relation to the activities of Mr Monamodi? 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 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. 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. |