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comradesExplanation MR MBUYAZI: I killed these women with a knife. One of them that I killed died right inside the house wearing an IFP T-shirt and we tried to run after the others by the help of Tulani and the other comrades, we ran and we outran them and we caught them and I stabbed them. As Mr Lyster has said this story relates to your abduction, and in your instance attempted killing, and the killing of your three comrades on 5 December 1986. --- Yes. ... he was an active supporter of the IFP, was seated at the bar. Jabulani Radebe's son came into the bar with a spear and a home-made firearm. The comrades who were sitting with you caught hold of Jabulani Radebe's son and disarmed him of the home-made firearm. They assaulted him and stabbed ... ... has got a spot on the side, one person called himself James, another one called himself Mike. I spoke to them, they said they wanted three or four comrades that will work and be trained together. I let them go away with Congress Motsweni and I went on a night vigil and while I was still on that ... After some time it was quiet and I then went back again. When I went back after some time, when I arrived, Johannes Selai was arrested by the comrades and they were asking him questions, beating him up, saying that he was an informer because he was with the people from the other side and at the ... ... and prejudice the apartheid system. We heard that fire was raging in Sasol and they announced both Sasols although then I didn't know, my fellow comrades they were also part of this coordination of attack. We were highly, you know, motivated and highly encouraged to fight ... ... the funeral of Mr Zazi Khuzwayo. When we came back from this funeral we didn't sleep. We were phoned many a time and we were called that we were comrades, because we had gone to that funeral - we had gone to the chief of the comrades' funeral and until I told my mother-in-law. My ... ... or something about the operation in Transkei before you left. That's what I'm driving at because your previous activities was simply to drive comrades around the country side not to kill people. So my question is - were you told, if you say you came across the Kei to kill whites in the ... Mr Cele, you've heard the evidence of your comrades and your co-applicants in this matter and particularly the detailed version of the attack given by the first witness, Mr Shange. Do you stand by what Mr Shange says or do you have anything that you would like to say about the evidence which he ... Mandla at the station, who took me to a safe house. In this house, I met the late Comrade Mato Damiole, Ike, Castro and Bonge Mabuto. Thereafter, Comrades Sipho Mhlango, Medisi Ketelo and Tsepho Mtwetu arrived. ... ... Maputo through to Mozambique and I stayed in Matola, ever since my arrival there at that place I was responsible for reading the news for the comrades in our houses there and in our camps in Angola. After that I worked with the Right of Freedom, also as a commentator and a news ... approached by the comrades element, the activists, to assist them with training abroad. "Upon my arrival in Cape Town I immediately contacted comrades and fellow members of the African National Congress." MR MHLONGO: As I said the SDU's mission was not to attack people, but to protect. So the people who were attacking their houses were the comrades - school kids that is. So we wanted them, because we were not fighting with their families. We were only fighting with them. We only wanted them. MR MSANI: They did not see eye to eye with our organisation and they would attack and kill our comrades. ... was after I shot the one fire in the air. They were hiding because they heard the shot. We got out of the gate. We did not see the car and our comrades were nowhere to be seen. Why, I do not know. But we had to run because people were now screaming "Stop them, stop the thieves". We ran ... ... the police came and then there was a fight there. We started shooting. Actually they started shooting and we shot back until we lost one of our comrades who was in the valley and then we lost almost everything because now the fight was too hot. We had to leave everything, the money, even ... Testimony was given of one of the attempts at killing this man. Fanyana Acrony Nhlapo and two of his comrades came across this man at Mdakane Street. They shot at him to no avail. The man simply kept on advancing into Slovo section, shot at three of the SDU members there, and left unscathed. ... submission or statement. I think it is, it was on the second or the third or fourth, we were from a funeral in Kanana, after burying three or four Comrades with whom we were in the struggle with. We went to the funeral by taxis. On our way back from that funeral, there was also a funeral at ... ... that the name of Chris Hani, because he is not there to answer for himself, should be used to support the amnesty applications. According to our comrades in Port Elizabeth, the motive for the incident in ...(indistinct) was armed robbery and not political at all. We have unfortunately not ... |