comrades

On the first of October there was a funeral of one of the comrades at Mavimbele, a section behind our section. When he left home it was about eight and he asked me not to lock as he would come back to sleep at home.

MR MTHEMBU: I cannot specify individuals as it was people who belonged to the ANC comrades.

run away from this country because they are going to kill you. When I was planning to skip the country, I had some of the things, or no some of our comrades were killed and maybe (indistinct) or Botswana or whatever, then I decided not to go ...

MR NTSEBEZA: I see. Now did you also gather information about the events on that day from the other faction, the Yamile faction, the so-called Comrades faction about what they did on those three days?

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.

There was a tough guy by the name of Simon who came and greeted us and lifted his feet calling us comrades, there was no response. Then they asked where was this boy with the T-shirt, then I lifted my hand up , then he came into the room and searched everything. Unfortunately he got some writing ...

After the electric torture was over, I was unable to walk, I collapsed. They then carried me out. They bundled me into a car, where my other comrades were, and we were then all taken back to Marshall Square.

Bobby instructed him to drive off. They subsequently encountered a road block. Fire was exchanged and the car was hit. The applicant and his comrades abandoned the car, one was shot dead at the scene, Bobby was wounded and another one arrested and later convicted. The applicant managed to ...

... alight. They did not want it to be known that they had committed a crime. They went back to the place where Mamasela was being held by other comrades. They decided that they were not going to ask him to take them to Lobatse and point out the house where they were going to sleep before ...

... 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 ...

MR ERWEE: With some of his comrades?

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

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

... side of the house. When I went to ask the others whether he arrived they said no, he didn't come back home. We started going around asking the comrades whether they had seen him and they said they haven't seen him. It was Saturday and on Sunday we tried to look for him. On Monday in the ...

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

... 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. ...

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

... 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 ...

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 ...