comrades

... to join a liberation movement. We would meet now and again with Bimbo, Jingo and Fenjana. In January 1982 a chap called Ephraim Falapese - the comrades used to call him Francis. He went into exile with my elder brother. My eldest brother's friend used to stay at home. They all went ...

to when the Comrades were taking me into Guguletu Police Station. I would say

MR NOSENGA: If I remember correctly it was in 1991 after comrades had threatened me about the burning of a certain garage.

... 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 MONYAKE: No, there was no argument, he arrived and he asked us where the rest of the comrades were and they started firing with the bottles that they had.

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 SAMUELS: Did you know that when you were told by your commander Ben Mashinini to leave the house, did you know that Sibongele and her sister would be attacked by your comrades?

MR MBELO: We were patrolling the borders and we were moving around the villages. Our askaris were helping us out to point out their comrades or the people with whom they were trained with outside. That was our main task.

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.

... 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 ...

REV MZAMBU: As I said, we were in church. I didn't know what they were doing but what we heard during the service was that these were comrades, they were just sitting there. What is surprising is that while we were still preparing to bury them the magistrate in this letter before me, it is ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

... 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, ...

"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."