comrades

... and I phoned me again and I tried to phone him and then a child answered the phone and I asked where Shimi was and then the child told me that the comrades were after ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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

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

Do you still recall that in August 1963 Mzizi was arrested together with his other comrades? --- Yes, I was present at that time when they got arrested by the past regime. I was expectant at that time.

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?

... 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.

MS NOVEMBER: On that night my main task was to help with security surveillance and also to accompany my comrades prior to the operation that night.

In the case of Botswana, the composition of the structures were changing very rapidly, we often had to withdraw comrades because they were in danger. I particularly was responsible for the Political Section, and in all my period outside, Marius Schoon in Botswana was part of the Political ...

... 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 ...

MR MANTHATA: If he died from illness, which means there was no provocation from the Comrades which resulted in his death. I can’t understand how the people in the community were victimized, which let to the death of your husband.

... rather Mr Sylvester and Mr Katha entered the shebeen and he met me at the door. I asked him why he entered the shebeen with a pistol because we as comrades were not allowed to enter such places with guns and at that time other people came and he ran ...

ADV PRIOR: Yes, but Mr Ncamazana and his comrades on their own version, took the vehicle belonging to the deceased at the Bahai Church - you deny having received it, but they took the vehicle ostensibly for APLA. And in the judgment at page 5, that is Mr Justice Dlodlo, his summary of the evidence ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?