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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 ...

... as opposed to political. The Committee finds it not to be so. This could mean that an Applicant who responds to the political killing of his comrades would qualify for amnesty, but were those comrades his brothers or sisters, persons closely related to him he would not so be entitled. ...

... 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 ...

MS LOCKHAT: Just one last question. Did you give any money to any of the comrades that participated in this incident, seeing that you had all this money. Did you give any money, maybe R1 000 or whatever to any of the comrades involved in the incident at that time?

When she came back they kept guard on her so that she could not run away because they initially thought that she had run away. These were Comrades, her co-comrades and on the day of the funeral of the three who were killed by hand grenades, Maki also went to the funeral, I also went to the ...

MRS MATLHOKO: On that Friday, when I heard the comrades were accompanying the Moscow people to go to their places, because they were not able to come to Makwetla area. It was when the corpse was arriving that the comrades took the Moscow people to the Moscow area. That's where my daughter met her ...

MR DEHAL: Whilst you were a base commander you had about 180 comrades, MK comrades, under your command?

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 ...

DR RANDERA: Before you came to us, had you discussed events of that day with any of your comrades. Did you go to Ms Gasebue and told her about what happened or have you kept this to yourself all these years.

... ANC. Especially J1, that is one section that is closer to J2 and they used to tell me quite a lot about this section, complaining about comrades who were giving them trouble. I then agreed to join them for those reasons. But I started by phoning Delatholo Luthuli at Ulundi and ...

CHAIRPERSON: Was it possible at that time to know the conflict that was going on between the Mbcoto and the comrades? Do you think he knew about this and they started to follow him?

MR MANTHATA: On coming out of the hospital there was never a follow-up of what happened to some of your comrades and their families perhaps?

MR MAPELA: Comrades said I must go to a doctor, Dr Mashlangeni, who is late. I went to him. They said that if I want to lay charges I would have to give Dr Mashlangeni's report and then go to the State Doctor. It is he who was going to confirm what Mashlangeni had diagnosed. I thought it was ...

MR MOTSAMAI: It was the comrades, they were fighting against the high rent.

MR RADEBE: I'm speaking about lawyers who were helping the comrades who did not have money, to have legal representatives.

MS FALATI: The culture of the comrades, of (...indistinct) so that anybody who wants to come here is (...indistinct) before.

MR MANDLAZI: I was based in Mozambique, Maputo, as a reporting officer there and I was responsible for a safe house where we used to keep our comrades who were either going home or those who were coming back from home and of course this safe house was our - that is, the department of intelligence ...

After considering the matter, the Committee is satisfied that the applicant and his comrades acted with a political objective as required in the Act. He further appears to have given a full disclosure and has complied with the formal requirements of the Act. He is therefore GRANTED amnesty for ...

MR MBUTHO: If I didn't have bullets or ammunition, I would actually go to other comrades and ask for help.

MR CORNELIUS: Did you know it was a person who had turned and had turned to his previous military comrades? - to put it like that.