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They both said that it was decided to kill the deceased because it was felt that it was too dangerous to release him because he knew their hiding places and he would inform the vigilante group where the comrades could be attacked. They also felt he was a traitor to their cause.

MR GUMEDE: Thereafter we actually ran away. We went to Matimatolo where we resided with the other comrades.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

In Johannesburg we met our contact, Mr Tepani Moswade. He took us to a safe place in Orlando West, Pefini, where we stayed until the other two comrades we left at Bulawayo arrived with arms.

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 ...

... 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, ...

MR TSHABALALA: I returned to the comrades and informed them that we should leave the township immediately because I had already shot one of them.

... demanding SRSC’s. The police the Ciskeian police then harassed us but they failed, because, but they managed to arrange, to arrest some of the comrades but I was not arrested at the time, I was arrested when we were arrested as students in Nonceba School. Here in Ciskei you would be ...

The second day when they took me again - they took me again to the Transvaal Road Police Station. They also showed me where they threw Arthur Mabija and they said one of your comrades was thrown out of this window, we are going to do the same with you. But I insisted that I didn’t know anything.

"It is, therefore, perfectly clear that groups who identified with the ANC or the UDF at the time considered the police as legitimate targets and that this strengthened my personal perceptions at the time, that the comrades would have no moral problem attacking us."

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

Mpempi and Hlongwane (he claims that he does not know their full names and addresses); the Applicant did not receive any support from his so-called comrades during his trial and only one comrade, Lobusa, came from Katlehong to visit him in prison; the Applicant does not know, and he also never ...

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

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...