comrades

MR BRINK: Well perhaps I won't press this, I don't think he understands. What I reallywant to know is that had you known that the late Amy Biehl was a comrade ora supporter of the comrades would you have killed her?

... aimed at bringing pressure to the regime through such a means applied in the act in question today, that is the attack committed by my fellow comrades here. And I think that is the only thing I can say about the Great Storm. Of whether it was publicly announced, yes it was by our late ...

MR BOSCH: Houses were burnt every night, the comrades burnt council members' and policemen's houses in the evenings and then we received the instruction from the Security Branch in Nelspruit.

MR KHUMALO: It was on a Monday, the 18th of April 1994. On the 17th I, together with other comrades with whom we patrolling, went to our camp and when we arrived there we received information that hostel dwellers wanted to attack our area.

46. Mr Nosenga was the last applicant to testify. He testified that he had arrived at the hostel during 1991 after he had escaped from ANC comrades in the Sebokeng where he had been accused of burning down the garage of one Mr Nkutha. Upon arrival at the hostel, he joined the IFP. While at the ...

MR VISSER: In his statement, in paragraph 35 and onwards, Mr Lengene states that some of his comrades in Botswana at that stage, had already been captured and prosecuted with regard to acts that they had committed there and he was afraid that he would also be put in jail by the Botswana ...

... that was his combat name. That is until I came back to the country. He heard that we were in prison. When I arrived in prison there were other comrades already incarcerated and they informed me that they had had an operation in which an APLA member had been involved. On enquiry I discovered ...

MR LAX: Could I ask a question? If you had a problem with this deceased, why didn't you just call him before the Comrades Committee of MK as existed in most places, and arrange for him to be disciplined according to your code? If he was a comrade who was behaving badly, why didn't you just call ...

that we should execute this action towards the Fidelity Guards, so we may be able to fund raise and that will enable us to set free one of the other comrades who was kept in hospital. One other thing that he mentioned was that we could disarm those people if the situation presents itself ...

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 ...

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 ...

... to clear up some of the things you said in your statement. You said that after your son was released from jail, he was no longer involved with the comrades. You also said that he was given guns by the police. And then you also said that you say him moving around with police vans. Can you tell ...

... in the process. The South African Defence Force members were looking on but neglected to do anything to stop the attacks. The Applicant and other comrades from the township retaliated. This led to a running battle between the two groups that carried on for almost two hours. The fighting ...

"Special Branch." Now this week the Commission has heard different versions of how policemen were attacked. In the one instance Mr Toka said his version was people that were an enemy or attacking ANC comrades' houses and then your version, or in your application you said:

"We were actually looking for the SDUs and the comrades, however the group including me proceeded to attack everyone and everything."

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

Did she toi-toi with the comrades or what?

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 ...

MR NGUBANE: I say that because I witnessed it happening. I know of several comrades who had been attacked by him. Some died and one of the people who had been attacked by the deceased was my own brother.

... the guidelines of the ANC and at some stage you mentioned that Gordon Webster had understood these guidelines and also that when you spoke to these comrades, they had by then known of the guidelines, so it was easy for them to understand. Do you ...