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comradesExplanation 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. Mandla at the station, who took me to a safe house. In this house, I met the late Comrade Mato Damiole, Ike, Castro and Bonge Mabuto. Thereafter, Comrades Sipho Mhlango, Medisi Ketelo and Tsepho Mtwetu arrived. ... 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 Cele, you've heard the evidence of your comrades and your co-applicants in this matter and particularly the detailed version of the attack given by the first witness, Mr Shange. Do you stand by what Mr Shange says or do you have anything that you would like to say about the evidence which he ... And what was that? --- I was told that they were going to identify the former Comrades. 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. ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... I may just give an example, judge, of what would be in that file? Mr Williamson had been working before my release from prison with a group of ANC comrades in London and they, once I became Secretary, had to send me records of who they were working with. Amongst those records were extensive ... ... so that I can take him to my place. Then I went out again because my son was not yet inside, then when I went out I could see that some of the comrades were carrying him towards my ... MR XABA: As I was in Umtata, I was running away trying to escape from the police, from being arrested, and I went to join the peace keeping force in Bloemfontein. I was being sent there by the MK. I saw the comrades being arrested right in Bloemfontein. ... 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 ... "In 1993 after joining the PAC, I was with comrades in this mission Simphiwe Manshe, Nelson Gebe. As a PAC member I decided to take training in order to fight for my country. I asked Mr Gebe to explain to me if it's possible for me to join APLA, or how long is that going to take. Mr Gebe told me ... MS REDDY: What did Mr Mbambo relate to you and your comrades? MR BLACK: Right. You say that about May 1992, you were with other comrades, you learnt that the Black Cats were harassing people at a disco in Ermelo, is that correct? MR MNISI: As I've already indicated yesterday my involvement there was to try and get two comrades and to test the remote control device that will be used in Pretoria. ... it was unlikely that anybody was going to really suffer as a result of your action and I'm talking about the people you were observing, the ANC comrades involved in Vula and that you wanted to make sure that they had as hard a time as possible and you were hoping that they would be ... MR JANTJIE: She kept staying in Maseru and as time went by she told us about some of her comrades who were living in Maseru. ... was after I shot the one fire in the air. They were hiding because they heard the shot. We got out of the gate. We did not see the car and our comrades were nowhere to be seen. Why, I do not know. But we had to run because people were now screaming "Stop them, stop the thieves". We ran ... ... and Daniel Rogers, during the lunch I retrieved messages from my (indistinct) link saying the TRC has turned down the applications of these two comrades. Now, if you are a commander, like myself, a Director of Operations, you lead to people to war. Applicant after applicant is declared to ... |