comrades

MR KOOPEDI: Do you know if your other comrades used the weapons they had with them?

meet other MK members and that is where it was decided or where it would be decided that we would have to get arms which we could use to train other comrades in Maritzburg but the problem was that the weapons were not there and we had to go to Port Shepstone to fetch ...

I also took part in planning and giving the approval with other comrades and my commanders, that the operation should be carried out.

MR KONDILE: What we were told at the ANC headquarters was: "Comrades, you see that people are being killed everywhere, all over. We are not surprised about this incident that you're relating to us and we were told not to be fools, we should use some transport to and from work."

MR MNISI: On the 4th September 1992 there was a night vigil of one of our comrades Reggie Masugu. As far as I know Reggie was killed by the Black Cat members. They abandoned him somewhere in the Extension and for the whole week we've been preparing for all these things. The police did nothing ...

MR LELEKI: I’d gone to look for a place to stay and as he was hoping other Comrades with accommodation ... so he’d just arrived from exile.

"... of Vlakplaas were also present. During the interrogation Mabotha gave certain information on the identity of his comrades, where they could be and also where arms had been hidden. Later Mabotha was taken to the Soweto security office at Protea. Two teams of Vlakplaas were also present, ...

As from there we ran off to the hospital - we arrived just in time before the visiting hours and the other comrades were also here. I couldn’t even wait in vain, I tried my way in, I forced my way inside, there were waiting for seven o’clock - I asked from another young woman with a pink uniform ...

MRS MBALULA: She was with her boyfriend. I could hear that there were gun shots. She had a child and I was with these children. Her boyfriend then came and other comrades.

... What he had been told by others is clearly hearsay. Suffice to say, that the Applicant says he takes full responsibility for the actions of his comrades. He said that UNITRA was targeted and classified as an enemy institution because it was oppressing the African people. He did not say how ...

... bottom end of how I would have concluded. I come here on behalf of my family. I come here to express the feeling of betrayal by compatriots and comrades. I come here to express our disappointment and the way we feel cheated of a dear little brother, a promising young man, a brilliant young ...

"... in the meantime the woman who lived at the house had become suspicious and asked to see the comrades again because she now had messages to give them. We then realised that she was going to become suspicious and could probably cause problems if she spoke about this incident. One of the ...

MR RICHARDSON: I told them and I said "comrades, I am Jerry Richardson, I am the coach for the Mandela United Football Club, Mrs Mandela told us to come and fetch you." They said nothing and they said if that is the instruction from Mrs Mandela, then it was fine for them to go and we left the ...

MR MNGONA: At the end of 1984 we were having a celebration as comrades, we were singing and walking through the townships and when we were in the village of Holland, at about eight o'clock, there were six policemen who were standing there.

In Johannesburg we met our contact, Mr Topane Mswadi. He took us to a safe place at Orlando West, Pethene(?), where we stayed until the other two comrades we left at Bulawayo, arrived with arms.

... operated in the Mawudse area. There was a problem concerning the incorporation of Mawudse into the then KwaNdebele. My main task was to train the Comrades in the vicinity of Mawudse so that they could resist that incorporation into KwaNdebele. I became the Operational Commander in my unit at ...

... by many others. After a long time I then heard, I was also feeling dizzy at the time and feeling very weak. I couldn't even stand. Then some comrades took me into a van that had taken all day injured people. Whilst I was there we were taking more people, even the dead bodies and I was ...

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.

The applicant and Nzolo stormed out of the premises but found that their comrades were not waiting at the gate with the getaway car. Each one grabbed as much of the money as he could get hold of and they fled in different directions. The applicant after running a distance, was picked up by a ...

... for his funeral we discovered that Emalangeni Cemetery at Hammarsdale they couldn't allow us to bury him there. They told us they don't bury Comrades in that place, and therefore we had to go to Clermont. That's where we buried him. While we were still there they used to come around and ...