comrades

... 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. ...

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.

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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 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 ...

... 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 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.