comrades

MS VAN DER WESTHUIZEN: Mr Mnguni, now how did it - you yourself, do you know any of your IFP brothers or comrades that were killed on the trains and can you please tell us about that.

... we referred to ourselves, we had 21 AK47's, we left as the 21 Battalion, we divided ourselves in three groups of seven each, we assisted our fellow comrades at Slovo Section. We managed to push these people out of the section. Most of the empty houses, we regarded them as houses belonging to ...

... memory in respect of the Silverton Volkskas Bank, there was civilians killed in respect of that. I'll move on. Wouldn't you say your father and comrades at that stage actively involved in Mozambique would seriously have the best knowledge of how your mother was involved during that period of ...

MR RICHARD: Weren't you supposed to stand guard and protect your comrades, watch out and be vigilant?

CHAIRPERSON: Mr Cele, just for my own record, these people that you were with, your two comrades, what were their names, I have heard them, but I just want to get their correct spelling, that you were with when you met the deceased and took part in the killing of the deceased with yourself?

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 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.

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

be abducted during the night and during the day when you wake up you find him lying on the street bleeding, dead or maimed. A painful memory of our comrades who at the end of the day happened to be detained, tortured in prison and at the end of it all you will be informed that he has died, he has ...

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

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.

... 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 ...

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 ...