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and by business interests. After the strike I've already mentioned the consumer boycott raised tension in the town. It was often enforced by young comrades. The finale to this conflict and this strike was the bussing in of a 200-strong Inkatha group into the township of Mphopomeni, which was ...

MR VAN DER MERWE: And that was before the police knew where to go and look for your comrades, is that right?

Thereafter in 1985 it started, our Comrades who skipped the country, went to exile. Then we were left. In the same year in 1985 we were elected into the Executive Committee. We were elected into the leadership. At the same time as in the Impomalelo Youth Congress I was elected as the Deputy ...

"... The Chief of the community approved the deeds of the comrades and ex-communicated the families of the deceased from the community."

... was on the 18th of March 1992. It was a day of the referendum as Mr Mbandazayo had said. When this Comrade came, Comrade Happy, and the other two Comrades, he was the third one. There was another Comrade who was providing us with transport that was at Datsun. It was blueish in colour, ...

MISS SEROKE: Now you say a group of comrades met at a shabeen to drink or just to hold a meeting, because in your statement you say that they had planned this meeting and they used the shabeen as a venue. Did you think perhaps they knew that you were going to meet there for a meeting? Was it a ...

structures of the ANC, Umkhonto weSiswe, which led to your being arrested, which led to constant harassment. You're also coming to speak about your comrades, your cadre' who were actually also involved in MK and sentenced to death, because of their involvement. But I ask you please to go through ...

Their task was to mobilise people in the PWV area and to a limited extent in Northern Province and North West Province. They had to recruit comrades who would send regular reports to them about strategic happenings in the areas where they had influence in their networks. Jenny also had the task ...

... you were involved was that in about about '93 he thought it was, there was a meeting in Johannesburg of the IFP, he was with you and three other comrades, you heard that the IFP were going to this rally and you had decided to wait for them to return. He went on to say that he and you took ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

... for the assault on him or the deceased's wife.  He later said it was not the aim to assault anyone, they just wanted the gun.  That is why the comrades decided to assault Nota and he was part of the ...

... opened, as we were knocking there someone enquired, asked who, he wanted to know who was knocking at the door. We told that person that we were comrades from Tanzania, we wanted to get to the farmhouse. They opened the door and we got inside. We asked them to direct us to the farmhouse. We ...

MR PLAATJIES: During that time of the period I started arranging illegal firearms because I see that the policemen were terrorising us, we armed ourselves as we were smuggling illegal firearms with some comrades from ...[indistinct]

MR TLADI: I don't know whether she lost consciousness, I don't know whether it was because she was struck with a knopkierie, but she was taken out of that yard. They were dragging her and they were singing songs normally sung by comrades.