comrades

MR MOSIA: They came to all comrades who were in maximum prison.

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.

... 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 ...

MR NOOSI: As I've just mentioned that I was in the position of authority. It was reported by our comrades who were guarding the camp, that I will not remember when it was but it could have between 1981 and 1984/85 because I left the camp in 1986. It was reported that he was not co-operating in ...

MR NGUBANE: I say that because I witnessed it happening. I know of several comrades who had been attacked by him. Some died and one of the people who had been attacked by the deceased was my own brother.

... the guidelines of the ANC and at some stage you mentioned that Gordon Webster had understood these guidelines and also that when you spoke to these comrades, they had by then known of the guidelines, so it was easy for them to understand. Do you ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

Some of these new leaders claimed to be members of MK, and began a reign of terror. Under Ceba and his small band of comrades, the Polla Park Unit began launching random attacks against the police, passing motorists and former leaders of residents of the Polla Park. The most credible Polla ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

... 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. ...

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.

... 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 ...

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

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?

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 ...