comrades

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 ...

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 ...

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

... 1981 or 1980 I can’t recall well, he once more found himself in a position where he had to leave the University of the North with a number of his comrades, if one could I quote one or two, Maku Ramathlodi, Tom Kwane and others who had to leave because of their perceived their pressure by ...

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 PHATLANE: No. The Comrades use to march almost every day. We would only see them marching and not know what the reasons for the march were.

... they said this is the place and the other one said no, the boy is not here any more and my neighbour said to me listen my friend these are not the comrades, these are the members of Mbokoto, please try to hide and I slowly moved into the house. I didn't know these were members of Mbokoto ...

ADV BOOYENS: Okay. But, so by then you already were fed up with your so-called comrades in Botswana?

MR NOBADULA: We were a group of students in 1977 and we were watching and guarding the police who used to raid our township. We called ourselves as if we (indistinct) and then we changed the name because some of our comrades were being arrested and then we changed our name to Amaxwabani.

MR BERGER: As far as the operation which we now know was aimed at the Why Not bar, were you present when comrade Robert and comrade - and the other comrades, not comrade Gordon, because he wasn't there, when comrade Robert was given the material, when the material was packed into his vehicle?

... and a theologian, my understanding of reconciliation is that it is pretty pricey, it has cost Jesus Christ his life, it has cost Leon and the other comrades their lives, but let me not dwell on that, let me go straight into how I remember Leon Lionel ...

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.

... could see. People witnessed his death. As I was sitting there they came, they jumped the fence and they said, "We are finishing all of the Comrades today. We are putting all of them to death." In the afternoon - at night I could not sleep. I left, I went to the hospital. When I got ...

MR MABUZA: I used that R4 for quite a while, and it so happened on our way to the funeral of one of our comrades, we happened to be surrounded by soldiers, because we were shooting in the air for a gun salute, and after surrounding us, they opened only one exit through which all of us had to go.

entry seeing that the doors were locked. I found a girl who was trying to jump out of the window, I apprehended her and I asked her where the other comrades were and she said she didn't know. I stabbed that instant and she fell. I opened the wardrobe ...

... He was the only person who shot anybody. He did not hear anyone ask them if they were Zulu but fired at people who were armed to protect his comrades. He later denied he heard any shots. When questioned further he denied taking part in the throwing out of the bodies as he was not fit ...

After that we were taken to Zeerust, when we arrived in Zeerust - I was handcuffed with the other comrades, his name was Malungi [indistinct] Shonangwe from Mossel Bay but he was staying here in Worcester. We were blindfolded then with black clothes - policeman who were there with [indistinct] ...

... through his nose. We left ...(indistinct) Miss Kumalo. The police refused us entry to the hospital. We went to Heidelberg office and asked the Comrades there to accompany us to the hospital. When we got to the hospital they refused us entry. Tembi talked to them and they eventually allowed ...

ADV SANDI: Yes but you don't know if Mr Hansel did in fact telephone the police to say that comrades have a meeting, you don't know that as a matter of fact, you just believe it?

MR DE KOCK: Yes Chairperson, they were used as witnesses against some of their former comrades. It was usually referred to them as Mr X with regard to the press but the Defence would know who Mr X is, because the client would tell them.