comrades

... experience of soldiering in conflict is, in my opinion, essential for true insight. The emotions generated by contact with enemy fire, the loss of comrades and the shock of land-mine detonations negatively influence the judgement of the most reasonable and rational individual. War, in whatever ...

... buying from other businesses.  he wanted people to buy solely from his shop.  He was also informing the police about the activities of UDF comrades.  The Applicant also claims that on a certain day in or about 1990 he and other UDF comrades were travelling to Umzimkulu to deliver ...

... 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 ...

I wanted Steve to read it, one of the comrades. Then the male comrades decided to go on a hunger strike for this and it happened.

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 ...

... 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. ...

CHAIRMAN: If I remember very well, this was done by people who called themselves comrades. I don't know whether there were also criminals amongst those comrades.

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 ...

MR NHLAPO: At the time of my arrest the police wanted to know where I resided and I knew that if I took them to Mandela squatter camp where I resided, they would discover the other comrades that I was with and then I decided to refer them to Emdene 1206.

MR VAN DEN BERG: I then also see that you are wearing a jersey with a Comrades Marathon emblem?

... my own particular experience with having been a victim of the repressive system in the past, I know that there are very close family and friends, comrades, who even 20 odd years after a detention, and that detention may have been for a very short period of time, and may have involved some ...

... clothed in a political blanket to enhance his chances to obtain amnesty but even if he had a political motive his actions and the actions of his comrades under his control were clearly disproportionate to his political objective of stealing a weapon. ...

4. A witness of the Douglas Commission alleges a mutiny in 1977, which was suppressed by Mr Ronnie Kasrils "by giving orders to an East German trained platoon to lock the comrades up". Can problematic events involving dissatisfaction of cadres in 1977 be described? How was the matter dealt with?

What happened is that before the Wesselsbron attack, my comrades, that is Ryber, who is Bhani, arrived, as I was expecting him from Umtata. When he arrived, I took him from Welkom to Wesselsbron at Mnyagene Township. Mnyagene Township I sought accommodation for him and then he found that ...

... hands of the security police and on occasions at the hands of the prosecutors and by his own feelings of guilt in being a State witness against his comrades and by reason of their associated fear of not being able to successfully merge with his community or the fear of death at their hands. Mr ...

... Mr Snoek, its really very simple. You had to operate according to orders. You got specific orders. What would happen to you? What would your Comrades do to you? What would your Commanders do to you, if you did other things beside what you had been ordered to do? That’s really the question. ...

... all honesty to get clarity because we could not get from your evidence when you actually saw the two firearms which were in the possession of your comrades when you went there. We couldn't get clarity when they were obtained or when you first saw them. I just want you to tell us when did you ...

CHAIRPERSON: Mrs Mahlangu, I have a question to you to follow-up relating to the Putco bus. According to our research and some statements we have on that day, apparently, some 300 Putco buses were commandeered by the comrades to take them to the funeral of Jacob Skosana.

MR WILLIAMS: It's Mjaban, he's presently in Portugal. He's the one who came here and we met, he spoke about the AK47 because there were a lot of comrades who came to my workplace who were like to be involved in this armed robbery.

MR FORTUIN: Do you know of - was that the period as was commonly known in the Western Cape where the Witdoeke and the comrades were in conflict with one another, 1991?