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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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

happening or what to do, then unfortunately I was working and I was in a struggle and myself and Tobikile Laauw were the ones leading Despatch under comrades such as Fikile Nkobese who was speaking here. I then hurried to ask my comrades in Uitenhage for help. They were also our brothers from ...

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

... 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That morning there was a group of comrades, Zihle Twala was a part of that group, they were coming to my shop. When they got there, I - when I looked at them in the eye, I could see that they were not happy.

This lady told us to run away, maybe we will also be affected. This surprised me, because I was not guilty of anything. I had nothing against the Comrades. I never disrupted their attempts to fight for freedom, because I also wanted freedom in this country. I never killed anyone. ...

COSAS and some of the Comrades who were in Kwatema, that is

MR GUMEDE: Thereafter we actually ran away. We went to Matimatolo where we resided with the other comrades.