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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 ...

... mother realised that he never disappeared for such a long time, even though they were outside. Sometimes he would write letters and give to other comrades who were infiltrating the country to give it to my mother, but then this time he disappeared with no contact at all, then my mother realised ...

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 ...

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

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.

... that the police would get hold of him, that was the first factor and secondly, you frightened him so much that if he returned to his so-called comrades with a broken body they would not believe him that he did not tell the police everything he knew. The intimidation at that stage thought ...

... 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 ...

... change. It was the afternoon of May the 20th and there was a meeting in Cape Town at which people spoke and particularly it was the leaders of the comrades spoke about the burning of homes in Crossroads and I was present at that meeting and was asked afterwards to come and witness these ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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.

... is when I heard gun shots being fired from inside the house towards our direction. That's when I fell down. I fell into the yard and my fellow comrades returned fire into the windows from where we were being shot and in the process I tried to take cover and I can say we changed fire for some ...

MR VAN DEN BERG: Did you discuss your experiences with your fellow students, with your fellow comrades?

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?

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 ...

... 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 BERGER: Did you not ask your comrades "what are you doing, why are you taking the stuff, why are you plundering", didn't you ask them?

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.