comrades

a week before the attack I was at the meeting which was addressed by Mkhize. All the residents complained to him that our people were killed by the comrades in Boipatong. We could not move around freely. We felt threatened. We wanted Mkhize to take a decision to act against the comrades. He ...

He further told us that Nicos used to help comrades - that is now Motsamai, Mr Chairman. He used to help comrades at their funeral.

... 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 ...

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.

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 ...

They are the men that said I am an informer. They are the ones that wanted me to be killed in Hanover. I thought they were comrades, I was working with them. I was worthy of trust at work together with them. The day I was attacked in Hanover, a man came towards me saying they have concluded ...

the City Council there are civilians, because they had their own security unit, which was I think involved at one stage in the operation against the comrades who retreated from doing the operation on a mobile, the Engen refinery. They were involved also in killing the comrades. So I can't say if ...

MRS MATABATHO: He was always present in the activities of the comrades. Every time he will be present. I remember in February when the comrades were trying to burn the office, he was there. He came the next morning at home, very tired. We were trying to convince him to leave these activities, but ...

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 ...

... Many police knew us because they heard our names at the ...(indistinct) and even at the chief's place. As we had many meetings they knew who the comrades were at the ...

... asking for it because that is going to give us rebel in the forthcoming time" - I think the sense of that is that you'd be branded as rebels - "the comrades should all be searched after an operation, that is not because we undermine them but we need trustworthy comrades." You dictated that did ...

... Then Mr Visser told us to go back to our attorney, Priscilla Jana, who would inform us where the bodies were buried. After some brief spell three Comrades, graves were traced in Piet Retief. I have got a document here. As the attached document indicates at the cemetery of a small location ...

... started changing and everybody was brought back to Luanda and I refused to be used as a Commander who will come, who will assist in disarming those comrades who were from the East because the problem was that those comrades were supposed to be disarmed and containers were cleaned and you could ...

Whilst we were standing there, a young girl, my daughter came and said comrades have gone into - three comrades have gone into our house, they looking for my father. I said what do they want him for. She said they say -they talking about him and she was blushing, she would look nervous and ...

1993, most of the time there were community members who were ANC members as well and we were fighting with IFP members who used to launch attacks on comrades. Many a time out brothers would lose their lives or fellow comrades. That is when I decided to join and have an input towards the ...

... the people taking my statement. I said to them the White people assaulted us. They said you are lying, where do the Whites come from? It is the comrades who assaulted ...

The nurses informed us that we are to be taken to Donges, there were some other comrades who were just rushing and coming in - the others were just slightly injured and they were just given treatment and they were discharged.

... that the police would get hold of him, that was the first factor and secondly, you frightened him so much that if he returned to his so-called comrades with a broken body they would not believe him that he did not tell the police everything he knew. The intimidation at that stage thought ...

"... The Chief of the community approved the deeds of the comrades and ex-communicated the families of the deceased from the community."

... the funeral he took Dr Asfat's car, but when he came back from the funeral, Dr Asfat's car was full of other people and he wanted to run with other comrades. But two men called him, they said come and ride with us. Then ...