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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 ...

... secondly on the 3rd 1990 Inkatha members attacked Sebokeng hostel once more. About 23 people were killed. I was called by telephone by hostel comrades to come in the morning through Comrade M Hunge. On arrival I saw dead bodies all around pointed to me. Together with other ANC and Cosatu ...

... name, as well as those of other assailants had been furnished to the police, no prosecution had resulted from those incidents. He and his comrades therefore believed that the police were not investigating the killing of ANC members because they sided with the IFP and they, as ANC ...

... between ANC members and gang members. This was the result of the ANC's stand which was fighting crime. This lead to the death of several comrades including an MK commander, Nee Radebe who was shot at by these gang members as well as other many comrades. What happened at that time was ...

MR KUNENE: We just assumed that he was getting the orders from outside because he's the only person who had contact with comrades from outside. Even whatever was coming in, that is the material that we'd conceive before taking to other areas. If the person would know that there is a material ...

... hospital you would be told, "You are coming from Xaluza. Obviously you are a UDF," and you will not get any help from that point. And it was said Comrades don't have any hospital. Maybe I should say that as the mothers of those children we did try to help our children, because the hospital ...

... have to wait until a certain committee is appointed; actually that will circulate the Republic of South Africa, meeting all the relatives of those comrades who died in exile. Then from there onwards the reluctancy by my fellow comrades forces me to take this matter straight to the Truth and ...

The applicant, who had a gun, pointed the gun at the suspect and called upon him to surrender himself as he was surrounded by applicant’s comrades. They then disarmed the deceased and started questioning him to "arrest" the suspect. The applicant, who had a gun, pointed the gun at the suspect and ...

... together with the people who’s relatives disappeared in exile. Whether they were killed by the enemy, whether they were killed by their own Comrades, whether they were killed in the camps or whichever way they were killed, the ANC said they would help us to try and answer questions of ...

MR NGCOBO: There were some of our comrades from the Mpangalo, people such as Mr Bernard Mkhize.

MR FRANCIS: And we also know that at that stage I think Winnie Mandela was being isolated by her own comrades, it was just shortly after the Stompie Sepei trial?

MR MASHUMI: Here in PE there was a mayor in our area, his name was Qnala, his house was destroyed together with the other one of the police and then some comrades were identified and I was - some of us were pointed out and then I ran away because I was scared.

... in a van and we wanted to run away. He stopped us. He said you must tell my family at Makwassie that April has died and he has been killed by the ...

MS SOOKA: And after you buried Jimmy; at the funeral, did Jimmy have an activist funeral? Were you helped? Normally when an activist dies, in a community, then usually all the comrades would come to assist the family to bury. Did that happen with you as well?

REVD XUNDU: And there was a quarrel between himself and you said in your statement, between himself and comrades. What was the cause of this?

MR KOTA: I think she died five days after that. It was after comrades went to visit her and members of the organisation.

... was actually an operation, it was called Operation Zero Zero, which the Security Police were responsible for. What it involved was giving to young Comrades, grenades that people pretended to be from the underground, from Umkhonto we Sizwe, giving these youths these hand grenades which were, ...

... have victims, people who died in the struggle and eventual reconciliation can only come about if these people are also honoured together with the comrades who were honoured by means of a play ...

MR NGCOBO: I gave them to the other comrades who did not have firearms so that we could protect ourselves.

... because I was a student at that time and I was their informer and I was exposed as an informer and I could not stay in the areas where my fellow comrades would be aware of. The alternative was for them to hide me there at Mr Venter's house and I could understand their reason because I was ...