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MR MKHIZE: I am not sure about the dates, but I think ANC comrades came to burn down IFP houses in the area.

VIOLATION: SHOT BY COMRADES

... number of us, between 15 and 20, or more than 20. We went to the servant's quarters, we knocked, they refused to open, we told them that we were comrades, they opened - I beg your pardon, we told them to open for us because we had, we were looking for something. He opened and we asked where ...

MR MNGOMEZULU: It was a large crowd of comrades and the community.

... 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 ...

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."

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 ...

... 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 ...

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

... 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 ...

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.

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. ...

... 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, ...

MR MADUNA: If you put it the way you put it, that the ANC or Mr Nongwe were fighting, I will have a problem, because the conflict in Crossroads, you would hear gunshots all the time, even the comrades were fighting.

REFUSED: in regard to any alleged assault on comrades during 1986 at the Botshabelo Police station, as described by the applicant.

In 1988 I got to know people like Sizwe and other comrades from Orlando West, as I staying in Orlando East, they were residing in Orlando West. It happened that in 1989 I joined the underground structures, MK structure. Sizwe was the Commander of the underground structures and I knew him as a ...

... and the magistrate couldn’t give me the body - couldn’t allow me to bury him on the weekend, they wanted me to bury him during the weekend. Comrades couldn’t allow me to bury him during the week, they wanted weekends. Policemen denied me the privilege to bury my son during the week - ...

N A NOMANDLA: Initially the Mazimzim were Comrades. They were called the Mazimzim because in August 1990 on the sixth there was a South African Police aeroplane that was dropping papers from the air. They said that if anyone could catch people who were burning down houses, they will be rewarded ...

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 ...