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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.

This was my son that I trusted, he was at St Bonavess School doing Std 9. I hope that I’ve told you what I wanted to tell you. The comrades came to assist me - even if they ran away at times, not staying with me for quite a long time but they came to help. I stayed like that and the police van ...

... branch came they were informed I nearly committed suicide and then I was transferred to Pollsmoor Prison together with another few of my brothers. Comrades like Adonis, Christopher Rutledge, Com Q, Christopher Tinto and our health Minister, Ebrahim Rasool, we were all held together. I was only ...

saw lights on the road. Both sides they were lit, there was a crowd coming towards me. I was active at the time, I was a UDF comrade. We were all comrades in the township, but we were not enlightened. I thought that UDF members do not carry such ...

ADV PRIOR: So they expected to meet comrades, was that part of the plan?

Dolo testified that he and his comrades then stopped a Toyota bakkie which approached with two women occupants.  In fact there were four occupants in the vehicle.  He does not dispute that these were not White occupants.  They took possession of the bakkie by force and told the occupants that ...

Some of these new leaders claimed to be members of MK, and began a reign of terror. Under Ceba and his small band of comrades, the Polla Park Unit began launching random attacks against the police, passing motorists and former leaders of residents of the Polla Park. The most credible Polla ...

MR RILEY: I must assume that you were involved in discussions with your comrades in arms and committee members in the PAC and APLA, about the developed and the route that the country was taking at the time.

CHAIRPERSON: And those other comrades of yours that didn't come too close, do you know who they were?

ADV SANDI: Sorry, can you just explain something here, Mr Nkwanyana. When you heard that the deceased and Mr Sibiya had been attacked, did you agree with that? Did you feel that your comrades had done the correct thing?

... that were to be meted on the people of Moutse by both Central Government police, on the one hand, and the KwaNdebele police and their vigilante comrades, Imbokhoto, on the other hand. Then on the first of January 1986 another invasion was launched from KwaNdebele. This took place in broad ...

On the walls of the office were pictures of dead comrades, all of whom had been killed by Security Forces. Joshua told the boys that the time would come, Joshua told the boys that their time will come. A victim of one of the shootings in Tokoza tells a typical story of what happened.

... this man. Later on they called a gentleman, that policeman who was in charge, who brought me there and he took me back to the cell. Then the comrades they asked me what happened and so on. I was not in a position to tell them that time because it was very painful and I slept and I was ...

I was arrested together with my comrades. We were alleged that we are people who are members of the banned organisations, and they mentioned the BPC and they mentioned the ANC, the SACP at that time.

... He was the Deputy Chief of Regional Security and went to his house in Kabwata, a Lusaka suburb. Jackie explained that he wanted to speak to comrades in special operations as to whether I should be deployed there. Because a White MK member would cause general interest and thereby ...

arrested were never killed, the people who were to be killed who were also saved by me, they were six people. It was at a time we were fighting the comrades, we were "witdoeke" and they came to me, they didn't know poor souls, and they found some men surrounding me, the men who were guarding me ...

comrades are working for us and he said to me, in 1986, I

... Union of Mineworkers as a regional organiser. I was also instrumental in establishing the structures in the Western Transvaal, together with other comrades, who formed a leadership in this Western Transvaal. People like Zakes Molekane, people like Thabo Sithole, people like Sylvia Benjamin, ...

... and myself and Max entered a yard of a certain townhouse. Whilst in the yard with Max I shot the police vehicle and it sped off. The other comrades were no longer around. Myself and Max threw Molotovs in this house whose yard we were, we thereafter retreated and I threw a grenade in ...

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.