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MR MASANGO: For Maputo, I think a month or two after my arrival there, I was tasked with gathering news for other comrades there, from the radio, from various radio stations. Then in the morning they will gather, I will read the news for them. I continued with that job of gathering news right ...

... out of the house, broke through the back door and went to these vehicles. A Mercedes and two vans. I told them in the Mercedes (Boers) that the comrades were asleep. I was then to move down and immediately afterwards, break my bedroom window and dash to wait by the cars. I broke the window ...

who kill hundreds of people and even if it's a greenpeace overall that they find, they'll still run to the Attorney-General to testify against their ...

... asked me, he wanted to find out about my identity, I told him that I am Jackie, then he asked me what I wanted. I told him that I was sent by the comrades in regard to the earlier instruction, that if we found the person responsible for the killing of Mr Mokoena, we should come and fetch them. ...

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

MR LELEKI: I’d gone to look for a place to stay and as he was hoping other Comrades with accommodation ... so he’d just arrived from exile.

... They should take the three of them, put them at the borders, shoot them and leave them there. And then the community will think that their own comrades have killed them. ...

... school was this, but there was blood all over the walls in this school. They said that I was going to tell them the truth, because I was keeping Comrades at home and I was a Magistrate in the township. I was sentencing the people who were ...

me out? He then said that, Comrades, let us not fight, let us talk. There was a

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.

... here. And they said there is a meeting at Mr Ngwenya's place. I don't know what is the meeting all about. And they said it is a meeting for the comrades. I don't know what is it for. And then he said - and then they said did they take my father to go to the meeting and this boy jumped the ...

... 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 ...

... son had disappeared, after a lot of accusations and counter accusations, confusion sown by the police, it appeared that what you had said to his comrades in Lesotho has been confirmed, by independent sources, namely that he had been kidnapped by the police. Did you have an opportunity to ...

... for Elda Bani. We were then supposed to report to the township about this. As the detainees of Cell 14 we discussed what to do. I then said that comrades what we must do, when we are writing letters home we must tell these people. When we have a visitor you are going to talk Xhosa and you are ...

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.

N KUMALO: What I can say is that I want to say to the Watson Brothers who were here in town at that time, the comrades called them and the leader was Duranxaba. They wanted to know what was really happening in Duncan Village.

... 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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...