comrades

MR KHUZWAYO: That didn't happen. I saw everything that happened there. I left two of my comrades and we tried to chase Sibiya and then we came back and we regrouped with the other two and then we decided that we were going to get hold of Sibiya on another day because he had run away.

MR MOHLABA: Was there anyone of you, that is yourself and the other two comrades of you, who had a personal vendetta or a score to settle with one of the deceased according to your knowledge?

MR SERA: In 1993 we met as co-accused together with my comrade. We met at Mosia's place where I met my three comrades where we used to engage in our training. I was the fourth one.

... to work with them as an informer or I wanted to continue with my political organisation. And they said to me they had the powers to influence my comrades to turn against me and be State witnesses. And I could see that that was a threat, and I was not going to be intimidated. After some ...

On the night of the incident he and his comrades one "Wizz" Rantla and Mosa Nkuta were on a reconnaissance mission in a stolen vehicle. The police suspected the car to be a stolen vehicle and tried to stop them. They drove off and managed to get away and got out of the car at White City. The ...

I approached the priest, a Reverend Werner, and I remonstrated with him and told him that his refusal to allow the crowd to commemorate the death of comrades who were killed on August 1976, showed sympathy with the apartheid ...

In 1988 I got to know people like Sizwe and other comrades from Orlando West, as I staying in Orlando East, they were residing in Orlando West. It happened that in 1989 I joined the underground structures, MK structure. Sizwe was the Commander of the underground structures and I knew him as a ...

Both, or all these three incidents, it does appear that the applicant was in the company of a superior or of other people he regarded as his own comrades, and in execution of a mission which was tabled or which was agreed upon between the members or was the instructions, the direct instructions of ...

MR NOSENGA: If I remember correctly it was in 1991 after comrades had threatened me about the burning of a certain garage.

We started talking with the comrades, and still then, the council was not helping us in any way. We sat with a group and we decided as to what we can embark on. We embarked on a consumer boycott. We wrote a letter to the council, telling them our demands. We told that our roads are in bad ...

... 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 ...

to when the Comrades were taking me into Guguletu Police Station. I would say

MR SIBIYA: I have a number of comrades who grew up in the area with him and we knew him. So they knew each other. Therefore all those people who were being attacked knew him and therefore they could actually identify him to me.

... 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 ...

MR MONYAKE: No, there was no argument, he arrived and he asked us where the rest of the comrades were and they started firing with the bottles that they had.

... You make the statement on page 28 that according to Col de Kock he also had information about the police activities, which he had given to his comrades, which had led to the death of policemen, according to de Kock, there was a suspicion that he had already lured police officers into traps ...

MR MADUNA: I was from Radebe and I was going to Mafimela, at home, I had an AK-47 with me. I saw many comrades and they were toyi toying, they were singing, and I joined them. There was a van, and in that van there was a RPG 7, fireguns were just fired between Tokoza and Myala. We went across ...

MR SAMUELS: Did you know that when you were told by your commander Ben Mashinini to leave the house, did you know that Sibongele and her sister would be attacked by your comrades?

REV MZAMBU: As I said, we were in church. I didn't know what they were doing but what we heard during the service was that these were comrades, they were just sitting there. What is surprising is that while we were still preparing to bury them the magistrate in this letter before me, it is ...

They both said that it was decided to kill the deceased because it was felt that it was too dangerous to release him because he knew their hiding places and he would inform the vigilante group where the comrades could be attacked. They also felt he was a traitor to their cause.