comrades

MR RICHARDSON: I told them and I said "comrades, I am Jerry Richardson, I am the coach for the Mandela United Football Club, Mrs Mandela told us to come and fetch you." They said nothing and they said if that is the instruction from Mrs Mandela, then it was fine for them to go and we left the ...

"... 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 ...

MR LAX: And then warn your comrades?

MRS MBALULA: She was with her boyfriend. I could hear that there were gun shots. She had a child and I was with these children. Her boyfriend then came and other comrades.

MR KOOPEDI: Do you know if your other comrades used the weapons they had with them?

had practically been blinded by the lights. He didn't in fact check or make sure what kind of motor vehicle it was and because of what he says, his comrades or the persons who were with him, made him aware of the fact that the vehicle was approaching. He, as I said, acted instinctively it ...

... how did it come about that not the whole unit was involved in all the operations? In other words you were only involved in some and some of your comrades were involved in others without you being there, how did that come about that you weren't involved in all these operations? Did that depend ...

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?

... down the street called Nkulu, past the dumping area and I saw a small bakkie there and I asked for a lift from the driver and there were other comrades who had asked for a lift and we told the driver that we wanted to get to Klapa and he offered us the life. As we were driving there was a ...

... State Security Council, that as part and parcel of dealing with the unrest situation in the Western Cape, the fathers must be assisted against the comrades. Now, would that surprise you now with the benefit of hindsight when you look back on those ...

MR ERWEE: With some of his comrades?

meet other MK members and that is where it was decided or where it would be decided that we would have to get arms which we could use to train other comrades in Maritzburg but the problem was that the weapons were not there and we had to go to Port Shepstone to fetch ...

I also took part in planning and giving the approval with other comrades and my commanders, that the operation should be carried out.

MR VISSER: In his statement, in paragraph 35 and onwards, Mr Lengene states that some of his comrades in Botswana at that stage, had already been captured and prosecuted with regard to acts that they had committed there and he was afraid that he would also be put in jail by the Botswana ...

... that was his combat name. That is until I came back to the country. He heard that we were in prison. When I arrived in prison there were other comrades already incarcerated and they informed me that they had had an operation in which an APLA member had been involved. On enquiry I discovered ...

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

Did she toi-toi with the comrades or what?

Number two. On page 2 of the report Comrade Raph reports on how comrades with Aids are treated by the ANC health department. Why was TZ not given the same treatment because according to the report, TZ was found to be HIV positive whilst in detention.

MR MNISI: On the 4th September 1992 there was a night vigil of one of our comrades Reggie Masugu. As far as I know Reggie was killed by the Black Cat members. They abandoned him somewhere in the Extension and for the whole week we've been preparing for all these things. The police did nothing ...

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.