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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.

... CID. They are from Alexander as activists. These are things that I remember. One of them who said in my house that he is looking for Mandela's comrades. He said he wanted my name and ANC members. I said it's funny because you have a gun and ANC have a gun. We are activist and we use ...

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 ...

Two youths said they had been visiting from Site C when they were arrested, they also complained of hunger. The jailers were aggressive towards the prisoners. One said they wanted information from these comrades because four of their people had been killed in fighting up till then.

MR McADAM: "The activities of the comrades or the street committees as communication channels or as communication channels regarding a community organisation or intimidation will be to make ungovernable by the leader elements by operation Vasvat to clandestinely make them the target of the Wit ...

... the shooting. Applicant stated that he decided to apply for amnesty in response to a call from the ANC leadership. He did not approach any of his comrades to inform them as he had assumed that they too would heed the call of the ...

MR ARENDSE: Do you know of any of your comrades in the APLA army who defied an order and if so, what happened to that person?

we were to carry out this operation. On this day I was ordered by the commander to come to his place. On my arrival I found him sitting with other comrades mentioned above. He then briefed us on the operation that was to be carried out. The car to be used was already parked in the yard. He ...

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

MS THABETE: On page 17 of the bundle, in your statement you say you were fetched and taken to the centre point at Khumalo where you met with other comrades. Who fetched you?

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

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

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

... 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 ...

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.

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.

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

MR ERWEE: With some of his comrades?

MRS NCHABELENG: Before the policeman came to fetch Peter, two men came to our house and they asked him to come with them and they said, comrades want to kill your wife. And then he answered and said it can't be comrades who would want to kill my wife. And we told the comrades that they shouldn't ...