comrades

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.

"Members of the security police and the riot squad police who participated in the beating up of all comrades arrested at Botshabelo were as follows:"

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... that the police would get hold of him, that was the first factor and secondly, you frightened him so much that if he returned to his so-called comrades with a broken body they would not believe him that he did not tell the police everything he knew. The intimidation at that stage thought ...

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

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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.

... 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 ...

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

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.

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?