comrades

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

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?

... In a written statement dated 22nd April 1997 the 1st Applicant stated the following, "From thereafter we gathered. The day before I and other comrades went to Kotelo's house. We found his wife (Monica) and said to her we want to see Kotelo and she respond to us that you wouldn't see him ...

He said when we were telling him about the burial of the, of our son he said he does not want Comrades and he is going to shoot any Comrade who is going to pass by his gate. Therefore, we had to bury our son at Ndaleni graveyard. This son I am talking about is my brother's son by the name of ...

MR KULMAN: We used that route as well, the route that he used, because there were other comrades with bases there.

... trained people with ammunition on them, but I submit that his attack on the police, being a defensive attack, was solely intended to defend his comrades who were all together there, all of them went to this house for one reason, to hide from certain forces which were attacking or harassing ...

... - 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 ...

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 ...

CHAIRPERSON: Ja, but if it was - wasn't it paramount to protect them, seeing that you were all comrades? Why not give false names? Because the fact that you gave names, meant that they all now got into trouble.

... he also said that he was a member of the vigilante. There's no other people again who said that he was a member of the vigilante group except our comrades and himself, ...

the unit, are, where the explosives are. And therefore they had to make use of misleading actions, in other words to delay the Police so that their comrades would not be traced. This is a classical example and then you drive up and down before a certain house, so that the people in the house, ...

MR ZWANE: No, I didn't have knowledge. I just knew that there was violence at Piet Retief as well, but I had no idea as to who was in charge of the comrades there. I didn't have all the necessary details.

What also saddened me with the KwaNdebele experience is that, as far as I know, no Comrades have asked for amnesty, despite the fact that there are many responsible for horrendous deeds. This is a tragedy. The ones I spoke to, of whom I know have done foul deeds, did not see the need to ask for ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... statement to the Amnesty Committee, states therein that the police told him that he was shot by the police because he had shot one of the comrades who died at the scene of that ...

... the deceased was not a member of an opposing political party or the South African Police, he was a municipal policeman and the deceased and his comrades had lost all faith in the security people and members of the municipal council. They only assisted the Three Million Gang. The applicant ...

... 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 ...

CHAIRPERSON: Not the people who tortured you, but some of your Comrades who were also tortured with you.