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"... in the meantime the woman who lived at the house had become suspicious and asked to see the comrades again because she now had messages to give them. We then realised that she was going to become suspicious and could probably cause problems if she spoke about this incident. One of the ...

... 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, ...

"Special Branch." Now this week the Commission has heard different versions of how policemen were attacked. In the one instance Mr Toka said his version was people that were an enemy or attacking ANC comrades' houses and then your version, or in your application you said:

... operated in the Mawudse area. There was a problem concerning the incorporation of Mawudse into the then KwaNdebele. My main task was to train the Comrades in the vicinity of Mawudse so that they could resist that incorporation into KwaNdebele. I became the Operational Commander in my unit at ...

In Johannesburg we met our contact, Mr Topane Mswadi. He took us to a safe place at Orlando West, Pethene(?), where we stayed until the other two comrades we left at Bulawayo, arrived with arms.

... bottom end of how I would have concluded. I come here on behalf of my family. I come here to express the feeling of betrayal by compatriots and comrades. I come here to express our disappointment and the way we feel cheated of a dear little brother, a promising young man, a brilliant young ...

As from there we ran off to the hospital - we arrived just in time before the visiting hours and the other comrades were also here. I couldn’t even wait in vain, I tried my way in, I forced my way inside, there were waiting for seven o’clock - I asked from another young woman with a pink uniform ...

MR MNGONA: At the end of 1984 we were having a celebration as comrades, we were singing and walking through the townships and when we were in the village of Holland, at about eight o'clock, there were six policemen who were standing there.

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

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

... 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.

MR MORUPISI: Firstly, I thank the Committee for giving me this opportunity to state my case about what I've done together with my comrades. We were compelled by the situation. I'm directing this mainly to the families of the deceased and together with their friends. We did not do a good thing ...

... What he had been told by others is clearly hearsay. Suffice to say, that the Applicant says he takes full responsibility for the actions of his comrades. He said that UNITRA was targeted and classified as an enemy institution because it was oppressing the African people. He did not say how ...