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 ...

"There is something that I want you comrades to do."

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Now, tell me about these boys. The boys who were implicated in this case, where were they from? What was happening? What drew them to that scene? --- They were called Comrades at the time, those boys, around the time of 1990. It was a group of youths with ages ranging around 16.

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.

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?

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.

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 ...

... R20 because we had used his car. That is how we departed and left him. We got to 6 at Mdantsane, to a squatter camp that was there to meet other comrades who were staying there. It was comrade Africa TNT who knew them better. ...

... for amnesty, but in vain. I understand that he has been furnished with certain names by the police, but they mean nothing to me as I knew my comrades with their operational names. ...

MR ZWANE: In fact the same day which I was in possession of the Scorpion at Mrs Mandela's place we were coming from the funeral of one of our comrades ...(intervention)

CHAIRPERSON: Mrs Ngange, this is a very difficult case for us but what we would like to know is that in your statement you said that the people who necklaced, or who killed Nomriti and Funeka were comrades.

... who was killed by UDF. You see, this thing was confusing. We could not understand UDF because we belonged to ANC. We used to say, "You are comrades," and they said, "No, we just use necklace. We are not." That's what they will say. This started 1990 up to the time when they killed ...

MR MBHELE: I had dedicated my life, because even my comrades, my colleagues, had been killed. Fortunately I am not the one who died, but Muzi.