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Our Comrades, such as Deborah Marakala, who was kept in detention for more than two years, who lost her pregnancy whilst in detention. Comrades such as Koni Khosi, who is also here today, who spent more than two years in detention without trial, having no visitors, being put under solitary ...

MR MQIBI: Comrades Sibusiso Afrika and other many guys because Phola Park were helping us. The only one that I remember was Sibusiso because I sent him to go and tell other comrades and he told other people from Phola Park as well.

On 8 October 1990 Howmore Ngcobo came to the applicant’s home with other comrades. They decided to go to the Point Road in Durban as they knew that this place was frequented by white people. They decided at a meeting in Point Road where they met other comrades that a certain shop would be robbed ...

... us your side of the story. Thank you. --- If I may ask, could we please just observe a moment of silence, of silent prayer for our two fallen comrades, Gideon Mahlongolwane and Xiswa Duba please. Thank you. I will start with the arrest on the 13th November 1985. I was on my way to work - ...

MS MOJAPELO:: On the 26th February 1990, there were some boys who came home whilst Stanley was still sleeping, they were comrades. There were some comrades who were from Temba location, they woke Stanley up, and I wasn't at home right then. They invited him to go and fight against the ...

Skumbuzo drove the getaway car and the applicant was to provide his comrades with cover. A preliminary reconnaissance had revealed that members of the security guard company normally entered the townships between 10h00 and 10h30. They would stand and watch whilst commercial vehicles were being ...

... decision was not to kill policemen. The same group of four members planned the operation. The applicant was to confront the policemen while his comrades were to approach from behind and take the guns. Two policemen were held up and one ran away. The other allegedly went for his gun upon ...

case to Headquarters, I received my letter of release and I built up a good relationship with him. Through him I had contact with the youth and the comrades and as well with Prince James, who was seen as the leader of the ...

during the morning of 29 June 1993 three girls reported to him that they were raped and gave the names of the perpetrators. He summoned some of his comrades and they went to seek the persons being accused. They found some of the perpetrators and took them to the sports-ground where the girls and ...

... day they took me by car to Durban. In Durban one of the ANC workers took me to Chesterville one house. That is where I stayed with some other comrades and Sipho Motaung arrived at that particular place and we were taken. We were ten in number and three men who were ANC members came to take ...

MS NHLAYISI: So this person lived at your fellow comrades parental home, that Sibusiso Coka's house, is that correct?

And after some time I met some comrades who asked where was my home. I don't know how I directed them and I lost consciousness and to regain it at my home. Then one of the neighbours took me to hospital and I was feeling very weak.

... and that is why most members of the IFP don't like to co-operate with the TRC. That's why my brothers - I will call them my brothers, they are my comrades, that is why today they are denying everything, because they are scared they may be arrested. But I think if they were told that they still ...

... in a hood, not a hood but a blanket, a prison blanket over his head and it had eye holes. I immediately recognised who he was. It was one of our comrades, the one who was missing all along, because we didn't know where he was. Subsequently we came to know he was arrested. His name was Ian ...

... thanked me. I then stayed at home. At night while I was sleeping his family members came from Cradock. They said that they heard that there were Comrades who were killed. I was not sure whether Makhaya was one of these people, because I was not sure of what I heard. We saw this incident in ...

MR MANDLAKOMO: Actually our comrades were being harassed by askaris and hit squads from the South African Government and we were to counter that.

know what other people are doing. Intelligence, I would submit, is not just to know what the enemy is doing, Intelligence is also to know what your comrades are doing. You must coordinate all that ...

Don’t worry. Let us say to both of you, as my comrades I’m saying to, we thank you. Because there are some people who always consider freedom as having just started in 1976 - for getting what your input too. What surprises is that most cases as you said you were not even active but you were ...

CHAIRPERSON: Mamma, was it normal in the - or usual - in the townships that when they picked you up they would pick old people up with young comrades, and that they would force them to undress or they would be embarrassed in front of younger people?

CHAIRPERSON: When people were arrested in Bedford, when you were arrested, sorry, in Bedford were there any Comrades who were arrested?