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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 ...

... house the one evening the chances were good that my house will be bombed tonight, or we accepted that they knew that. Only they - the non-comrades, they were the only people who attacked the non-comrades. So if they were attacked, who could it have been, only the Security Police. The ...

MR BOOI: The, some comrades came with Dabula and said that we have found him. There was no firearm at that time, and me and Jabu rushed to fetch a firearm. We came back with the firearm and some of the comrades were still holding him, Dabula. MR SHANE:   Can you give the names of these comrades, ...

"Comrades there’s something terrible coming to you because someone is going to die".

DR RANDERA:: Ms Chauke you are taking us back to Hammanskraal in 1986. You have given us a very full history, you are a member of the UDF at the time and you were arrested with some colleagues comrades from your area Stinkbaken is that right?

... police station, together with Isaac. From Alexandra we were taken to Sandton police station where we were detained but to my surprise a lot of comrades were arrested with a very short space of time. So, during the process there at Sandton the police were not yet having a very good ...

Then on the 7th of June, when I was coming back from work, I was told that the KwaZulu Police were with the Inkatha group, and they went to all the comrades' houses searching for the comrades. And I told them that probably they were coming to my place. I slept very late that night keeping ...

... would come back from work - what was happening here is that it was difficult to even go to town, we would be attacked. We tried to lay charges but comrades were not allowed to lay charges. The police would say only the informers that could lay charges. The comrades could not lay charges - I ...

... [indistinct] in Luanda, it was already nine days the child had died so we had to bury him. And then mamma Ruth said to me, okay since there are comrades MK-comrades who usually come when their families come and visit them, they come once a week - so you will have to stay for the week here, ...

they wanted to attack and that the three policemen were known to be very notorious, they were known to be amongst those that were petrol bombing our comrades' houses in Atteridgeville and other areas there by Atteridgeville. The whole thing was well motivated in a way that a go ahead was given ...

... like to tell us what happened on that day when you attended the meeting. --- There was a meeting at school. The comrades had called the meeting. We then went there. When we got there it was packed with people. Steven Mgezwa was called out to pray. He prayed. When he said amen there was ...

up to make a statement because I have been arrested, because I am the leader of the comrades. I was arriving about five metres, leading 500 people. I refuted that because I am not going, I will not go with you, I will come tomorrow, tell me where I should go. They said I should come to the ...

... 1993 whilst I was sitting at home in the dining room I heard men talking outside saying wake up men. Because there were patrols at that time, the comrades were patrolling, trying to protect us against ...

... left Jane Furse going to Mutatema to a funeral. We also wanted to go and look for a combi which was stolen. When we arrived in Tafelkop where our comrades were killed we found the combi and it was driven by those people who stole it. After the funeral we got the combi and we wanted to go home. ...

... gun sounds below. After killing these three we passed to another family and we find women, there was a woman and her children. I told the other comrades that they shouldn’t kill the women because they’ve already killed some and I was warning them that they shouldn’t kill them and therefore we ...

On arriving at Police Station, I was tortured severely. As I was there I was so surprised to see some of my fellow comrades. I remember there was comrade Bulwana and others. Some of them have left. When we were there a hole was dug and I was made to put my hands right there. I had a big cold ...

MR MAKHAYE: We shot him because we had seen him before, we had a chance earlier on or should I say before the violence itself, we were able to go to the township, we used to see him in the company of the ANC comrades. These were the comrades who were responsible for the dying of many IFP members.

... ordeal that I experienced. In 1983, although I do not remember the date, I use to stay in Tembisa at the hostels. I moved with some of the Comrades from the hostel and we left for Alexandra during the mass funeral of 17 people who were killed. From Tembisa we struggled to leave for ...

They welcomed me very warmly. They invited other comrades to welcome me as well. Amongst the comrades were Charles Zwane, Sonwabo and the others.