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comradesExplanation ... Maputo through to Mozambique and I stayed in Matola, ever since my arrival there at that place I was responsible for reading the news for the comrades in our houses there and in our camps in Angola. After that I worked with the Right of Freedom, also as a commentator and a news ... ... does implicate me. Why I say that, there were times, as people were dying continuously in our section, there were times that I would transport the comrades, the SDU members to go and monitor us in the cemetery or the graveyard to see how safe we will be and to sort of monitor those who were ... MR SCHOON: As instructed by the senior comrades, we in fact wrote a letter of introduction to Mr Williamson for a senior person in SACTU. I can't remember if it was to John Motswane or to Ray Alexander. MR MHLONGO: As I said the SDU's mission was not to attack people, but to protect. So the people who were attacking their houses were the comrades - school kids that is. So we wanted them, because we were not fighting with their families. We were only fighting with them. We only wanted them. "Upon my arrival in Cape Town I immediately contacted comrades and fellow members of the African National Congress." ... submission or statement. I think it is, it was on the second or the third or fourth, we were from a funeral in Kanana, after burying three or four Comrades with whom we were in the struggle with. We went to the funeral by taxis. On our way back from that funeral, there was also a funeral at ... ADV GCABASHE: ... was that the plan, that the car must go back and bring more of your comrades to come and join you? Was that the plan? She really wants to know about the planning. Before you went there, what was the plan? ... the police came and then there was a fight there. We started shooting. Actually they started shooting and we shot back until we lost one of our comrades who was in the valley and then we lost almost everything because now the fight was too hot. We had to leave everything, the money, even ... MS TANZER: What was the relationship - how was the relationship between your comrades of Boipatong and the residents of Slovo Park, were they also protecting Slovo Park? ... that the name of Chris Hani, because he is not there to answer for himself, should be used to support the amnesty applications. According to our comrades in Port Elizabeth, the motive for the incident in ...(indistinct) was armed robbery and not political at all. We have unfortunately not ... MR BOOYENS:: You have testified against your erstwhile Comrades, and gave testimony to the best of your ability to get them into jail for as long as possible. Is that right? MR TEKANE: Well I did get in touch with my comrades from the movement. I was reluctant to apply to some extent, that is why I applied so late, just before the deadline and they advised me to apply. ... Vlakplaas, because they wanted us at Vlakplaas to go out and kill as many ANC members as possible and we were still fresh and we knew many trained comrades inside and outside the country, so that the situation did not permit that we could stay. We informed our connections outside that we were ... ... or something about the operation in Transkei before you left. That's what I'm driving at because your previous activities was simply to drive comrades around the country side not to kill people. So my question is - were you told, if you say you came across the Kei to kill whites in the ... Now I told myself that I'm going to do what I'm here for, which was helping comrades going through the border and receiving them when they came out from the borders. And then since I was already used to that. At times I was severely interrogated, but I could take the punches. I'd still stay, ... I distinctly remember (indistinct) Ndlovu being there, (indistinct) Bengu was also there and others. Therefore the inkozi was told to call a meeting of the community. Those who did not attend the meeting, would have to leave the area and move to areas which were controlled by the comrades. MR MSANI: They did not see eye to eye with our organisation and they would attack and kill our comrades. There was a time when the Comrades realised that I was arrested again I was called in before the vigil and I was requested to apologise. At that time I had to attend night schools or adult education, I was having conscience, there were times when I was very affected by what had happened to me. ... MR ARENDSE: Are those three different comrades or they one and the same person, this Mandla, Power, Jones or are they different persons? MS SEROKI: Petrus you just said you had a stokfel at your place and Khumalo's boys came. What about the Khumalo boys, were they students or were they comrades? |