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MR VISSER: On page 27 of his application Mr Ngo also applied for assault and torture of comrades in Bloemfontein. This refers to a group, that is a group of 19 who were arrested in the Ladybrand district and were transferred from Ladybrand to Bloemfontein. Do you relate to which incident I'm ...

MR MANTHATA: If he died from illness, which means there was no provocation from the Comrades which resulted in his death. I can’t understand how the people in the community were victimized, which let to the death of your husband.

MR KULMAN: We used that route as well, the route that he used, because there were other comrades with bases there.

He said when we were telling him about the burial of the, of our son he said he does not want Comrades and he is going to shoot any Comrade who is going to pass by his gate. Therefore, we had to bury our son at Ndaleni graveyard. This son I am talking about is my brother's son by the name of ...

46. Mr Nosenga was the last applicant to testify. He testified that he had arrived at the hostel during 1991 after he had escaped from ANC comrades in the Sebokeng where he had been accused of burning down the garage of one Mr Nkutha. Upon arrival at the hostel, he joined the IFP. While at the ...

she is in the hands of Security Police, she's got a latitude to - normally for 24 hours you are supposed to resist and don't say any thing, and your comrades are expected within that 24 hours, to act accordingly and that's what I did. That's what I did. Now the other possibility was that I ...

MR ZWANE: No, I didn't have knowledge. I just knew that there was violence at Piet Retief as well, but I had no idea as to who was in charge of the comrades there. I didn't have all the necessary details.

... 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 ...

What also saddened me with the KwaNdebele experience is that, as far as I know, no Comrades have asked for amnesty, despite the fact that there are many responsible for horrendous deeds. This is a tragedy. The ones I spoke to, of whom I know have done foul deeds, did not see the need to ask for ...

... trained people with ammunition on them, but I submit that his attack on the police, being a defensive attack, was solely intended to defend his comrades who were all together there, all of them went to this house for one reason, to hide from certain forces which were attacking or harassing ...

N KUMALO: What I can say is that I want to say to the Watson Brothers who were here in town at that time, the comrades called them and the leader was Duranxaba. They wanted to know what was really happening in Duncan Village.

CHAIRPERSON: Ja, but if it was - wasn't it paramount to protect them, seeing that you were all comrades? Why not give false names? Because the fact that you gave names, meant that they all now got into trouble.

MR VISSER: Mr Lengene also said with reference to the visit to Pretoria, where he spoke to Mr Hershveld, he indicated that at that stage his comrades in Botswana were fond guilty in Botswana and were sentenced to 11 years concerning the activities around vehicle theft, what do you say to that?

... to clear up some of the things you said in your statement. You said that after your son was released from jail, he was no longer involved with the comrades. You also said that he was given guns by the police. And then you also said that you say him moving around with police vans. Can you tell ...

... he also said that he was a member of the vigilante. There's no other people again who said that he was a member of the vigilante group except our comrades and himself, ...

the unit, are, where the explosives are. And therefore they had to make use of misleading actions, in other words to delay the Police so that their comrades would not be traced. This is a classical example and then you drive up and down before a certain house, so that the people in the house, ...

me out? He then said that, Comrades, let us not fight, let us talk. There was a

Because at the request of the people so that they could search and find the comrades. One of the things he mentions in his statement, he says Christopher was resident at Nyanga Bush, he was one of the people who were in your home guard working with Zwelitsha and Zwelitsha mentions that in his ...

CHAIRPERSON: Not the people who tortured you, but some of your Comrades who were also tortured with you.

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 ...