comrades

... police came and then there was a fight there.  We started shooting.  Actually they started shooting and we shot back until we lost one of our comrades who was in the valley and then we lost almost everything because now the fight was too hot.  We had to leave everything, the money, even ...

"I was forced to plead guilty by my comrades despite the fact that I did not commit the crime."

MISS TUKU: It was one of the Comrades who were there.

MR MAKHUBALO: After my comrades were assaulted, when I went to the toilet, I saw those blood stains, that is what I am saying.

What the leader of the PAC Mr Chairman, said in an amnesty or a Commission hearing in a hope of getting his comrades out of prison, in 1996, can hardly be relevant as to what the state of affairs and circumstances were in 1982 and 1984 when these murders were committed.

MR ERWEE: With some of his comrades?

But I think I will be very much unfair to myself and my fellow comrades who have been released with me, because we are not only perpetrators as such, because if it was not because of apartheid regime we could have not shot the people, maimed the people or tortured the people, as all what I have ...

... day. The day of the funeral there were a lot of policemen with landrovers and dogs. They were full inside the yard and outside and then the Comrades took the coffin. ...

We waited for the funeral day, praying and soldiers used to come while we were still praying and the comrades used to come to my house to pray and the soldiers used to go there every time.

... the youth. I was psychologically tortured at the cells. You know they used to show me some pictures of what was happening, I used to see some of my Comrades and we were trying to ask why are you torturing us, the others were put in the straight-jacket, they were screaming due to pain and during ...

... CID. They are from Alexander as activists. These are things that I remember. One of them who said in my house that he is looking for Mandela's comrades. He said he wanted my name and ANC members. I said it's funny because you have a gun and ANC have a gun. We are activist and we use ...

Number two. On page 2 of the report Comrade Raph reports on how comrades with Aids are treated by the ANC health department. Why was TZ not given the same treatment because according to the report, TZ was found to be HIV positive whilst in detention.

Did she toi-toi with the comrades or what?

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 ...

... - I believe he was the entrusted one. They took me and they roam around the location with me at the back of the van. They took one of my comrades and they took us to the detectives office. When we arrived there, they took us inside the offices, what they did they separated us but he ...

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

had practically been blinded by the lights. He didn't in fact check or make sure what kind of motor vehicle it was and because of what he says, his comrades or the persons who were with him, made him aware of the fact that the vehicle was approaching. He, as I said, acted instinctively it ...

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 ...