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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]

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

it here because it's already in my statement. Even this day I haven't received my civil claim. I don't want to get into that point because our own comrades who are lawyers really deceived ...

MS GCABASHE: To be fair to the witness he was relating a conversation he had with one of his comrades and in the context of that he gave this explanation about APLA and the PAC politicing, that's how I understood him.

CHAIRPERSON: Isn't it fairly clear though, or I would have thought it was, that his comrades would have known of his disappearance and would have assumed that he'd been eliminated by the police or the intelligence organisations, security organisations?

... I was sent to this particular group there was a prisoner held at the police station cells who I was given instructions to get some names of his comrades and I slept with him in the cell and the following day I had to tell him that my lawyer was there to release ...

MR ZUNGU: I just knew him as any other comrades at school when we meet.

MR KHUMALO: It so happened that when we came back from exile in 1992, it was the 3rd of April. When we arrived at our homes, we dropped our things and we left to look for other comrades around the township because it has been a long time since we saw them.

Firstly, it was on the 2nd December 1989. After the march one of our comrades whose name is Fikile Philip was run over by a police van in town, in Lusikisiki. This is the first incident.

From there, after that we asked ourselves and parents and other comrades, what must we do now, because they have got to consult a doctor. One elderly person said, Mr Hatibe, we need to take them to the office of the ANC at Nelspruit, we must go and show them there. They arranged for us which ...

... stopped. Apparently he was coming from somewhere to the car. As he was opening the door of the car I drew out my gun and pointed it at him and my comrades immediately joined me and we asked for the car keys and he did not want to give the car keys voluntarily to us. I therefore threatened him, ...

... and then we entered and then we sat and I had a neighbour with whom I was going to work, another lady. Whilst we were inside the house, these four comrades came in and they talked and chatted with my husband and I was saying to my husband he should go and come back later to make porridge for ...

This lady told us to run away, maybe we will also be affected. This surprised me, because I was not guilty of anything. I had nothing against the Comrades. I never disrupted their attempts to fight for freedom, because I also wanted freedom in this country. I never killed anyone. ...

fighting with UNITA. I wanted that to come out clear for our records. The last question now. This is a pastoral question to you. These were your comrades. You were part of them and they left you and remained behind and you never saw them. They died. How did this affect you emotionally as a ...

... on the day on which I had been collecting some money, contributions towards Mliko's funeral. As I arrived at home I got a message that some comrades had been looking for me and they had left a message that I should proceed to Bekilanga on my arrival. As I arrived there, that was a spot ...

MR MBELE: I don't want to commit myself, I don't know, but it was the comrades.

Although no tangible evidence was at hand at the time, but he was believed to be spying on the comrades. In fact, the deceased was not on talking terms with me since I was a member of the ANC Youth League."

MR CHOANE: The ten code is an askari, he's a person who betrayed the movement, it's a person who betrays his own comrades, so I never wanted to indulge myself in such activities.