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... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... if I didn’t want to say anything they would leave me in prison and so I was left there in the cells. While in the cells, there were also other comrades with us from Zwelethemba. When I came out of the single cell I was crying a lot. I would sit on my own and shiver and I would long home to ...

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 ...

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 ...

... [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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... to join a liberation movement. We would meet now and again with Bimbo, Jingo and Fenjana. In January 1982 a chap called Ephraim Falapese - the comrades used to call him Francis. He went into exile with my elder brother. My eldest brother's friend used to stay at home. They all went ...

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

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

... He said that he was also a member of the UDF but held no official position in the organisation. He admitted making common cause with his comrades in the attack on the 25th March 1990. According to him among those who died, were a female whose name was given as Mzelwa and one Geduga ...