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... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

... who stayed in Daveyton they met them at Tembisa railway station, they dispersed them and they shot the one boy from Daveyton and killed him. The comrades brought him to my yard. My son was not there. They left this boy's body and the policemen arrived. We were now being guilty of taking ...

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 ...

MR LOWIES: Is it correct that you could not return to your place of birth because you had problems with the comrades?

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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.

... change. It was the afternoon of May the 20th and there was a meeting in Cape Town at which people spoke and particularly it was the leaders of the comrades spoke about the burning of homes in Crossroads and I was present at that meeting and was asked afterwards to come and witness these ...

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.

... is when I heard gun shots being fired from inside the house towards our direction. That's when I fell down. I fell into the yard and my fellow comrades returned fire into the windows from where we were being shot and in the process I tried to take cover and I can say we changed fire for some ...

MR VAN DEN BERG: Did you discuss your experiences with your fellow students, with your fellow comrades?