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ADV SANDI: Were you ever requested by your comrades to check the whereabouts of members of the IFP and the ISU?

... These were the people that supported the government of apartheid. Our campaign unfortunately was successful here at home. This is because of our comrades were behind bars, some in exile. The state missionaries had inflicted fear on our people. Fear was instilled on their minds. ...

MR MORUPISI: Firstly, I thank the Committee for giving me this opportunity to state my case about what I've done together with my comrades. We were compelled by the situation. I'm directing this mainly to the families of the deceased and together with their friends. We did not do a good thing ...

saw lights on the road. Both sides they were lit, there was a crowd coming towards me. I was active at the time, I was a UDF comrade. We were all comrades in the township, but we were not enlightened. I thought that UDF members do not carry such ...

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 ...

we met Mr Bhani in Wesselsbron. He said to me I should drive the car and take all those who were taking part to town. I did that, I took my fellow comrades to town in Wesselsbron. When we arrived I stopped the car in front of the supermarket and they entered the supermarket, then they ...

... 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 ...

MR MAKHURA: On that particular day I agreed with my comrades that we had to assassinate him, as they have already mentioned what kind of person he was. That is when we went to Beirut to assassinate him.

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

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.

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 ...

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

... could see. People witnessed his death. As I was sitting there they came, they jumped the fence and they said, "We are finishing all of the Comrades today. We are putting all of them to death." In the afternoon - at night I could not sleep. I left, I went to the hospital. When I got ...

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

In the case of Botswana, the composition of the structures were changing very rapidly, we often had to withdraw comrades because they were in danger. I particularly was responsible for the Political Section, and in all my period outside, Marius Schoon in Botswana was part of the Political ...

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 ...

MR KONDILE: What we were told at the ANC headquarters was: "Comrades, you see that people are being killed everywhere, all over. We are not surprised about this incident that you're relating to us and we were told not to be fools, we should use some transport to and from work."

MR LAX: And then warn your comrades?

... 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. ...

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 ...