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On the first of October there was a funeral of one of the comrades at Mavimbele, a section behind our section. When he left home it was about eight and he asked me not to lock as he would come back to sleep at home.

MR OLIPHANT: I was further assaulted. They were not asking me, they were actually telling me the evidence that they heard from the other comrades. They said I was responsible for many activities around the country and I disputed that information.

MR NYAWUZA: So family members of - are you saying family members of Mr Dlamini, or fellow comrades of Mr Dlamini?

... he sustained. The Applicant testified that he shot Sipundla because he was one of the Pirates members who went around the township and raided UDF comrades homes. He would attack and kill them. Sipundla was also known to be working very closely with the Security Police viz. Sergeant Meyer who ...

MR MAKHURA: On that particular day I agreed with my comrades that we had to assassinate him, as they have already mentioned what kind of person he was. That is when we went to Beirut to assassinate him.

In the case of Botswana, the composition of the structures were changing very rapidly, we often had to withdraw comrades because they were in danger. I particularly was responsible for the Political Section, and in all my period outside, Marius Schoon in Botswana was part of the Political ...

MR MOGAPI: The main concern was, we were doing this deliberately because we don't know what we are fighting for. That is why the comrades were going to the Indian doctors, who helped them, until they brought me to Klerksdorp, where

There was a tough guy by the name of Simon who came and greeted us and lifted his feet calling us comrades, there was no response. Then they asked where was this boy with the T-shirt, then I lifted my hand up , then he came into the room and searched everything. Unfortunately he got some writing ...

... the areas, up to the Civic Association and it was confirmed that these people were involved in harassing our people, bombing our houses and other comrades' houses, and it was confirmed beyond reasonable ...

who formed the front lines of the march were all arrested and we were extremely saddened to hear that so many people got hurt. And that one of our comrades who is sitting here this morning Reverend Jan de Waal had been injured and lost his ...

... CID. They are from Alexander as activists. These are things that I remember. One of them who said in my house that he is looking for Mandela's comrades. He said he wanted my name and ANC members. I said it's funny because you have a gun and ANC have a gun. We are activist and we use ...

she is in the hands of Security Police, she's got a latitude to - normally for 24 hours you are supposed to resist and don't say any thing, and your comrades are expected within that 24 hours, to act accordingly and that's what I did. That's what I did. Now the other possibility was that I ...

MR ZWANE: No, I didn't have knowledge. I just knew that there was violence at Piet Retief as well, but I had no idea as to who was in charge of the comrades there. I didn't have all the necessary details.

What also saddened me with the KwaNdebele experience is that, as far as I know, no Comrades have asked for amnesty, despite the fact that there are many responsible for horrendous deeds. This is a tragedy. The ones I spoke to, of whom I know have done foul deeds, did not see the need to ask for ...

CHAIRPERSON: And your other comrades?

MR MOSIA: They came to all comrades who were in maximum prison.

MRS LEGODI: We were told that Philip was taken by Dr Molepo and Majekani. When he came back from Garagkuwa he used to go to Dr Molepo's surgery for check ups because he had back pains. We heard that the comrades arrived after Phillips death.

MR KULMAN: I only know him as Thanduxolo. I only reciprocate that he was also referred to as Mandla and Pawa. Other comrades referred to him as Mandla and Pawa but I knew him as Thanduxolo.

MR MHLAKAZA: Elliot Fudamele is one of our comrades who left because of the conflict that was there at the time and he went to stay in Orange Farm.

I was just watching. That was the time when these people were organising the UDF and at that time, their leader was Alan Boesak, so when I met some comrades, I knew. They told me that the UDF had just been established because they had seen that it was very important that there should be an ...