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... time. When we arrived there we joined the toy-toy, from the new location to the old location. People were singing freedom songs, we joined the Comrades. We sang around the old location chanting freedom ...

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 ...

"The prospects of talks certainly did not please Hani when, in an interview shortly after the unbanning of the ANC and SACP he cautioned that 'I think we must struggle very hard for our comrades not to feel that sitting down with the enemy is betrayal'. (reference no.56)".

MR MEMANI: And you heard Motsamai testify that Mr Nichos was a courier and you’ve already commented on that. You also heard Mr Motsamai testify that Nichos used to help comrades in the township.

... with a project which some other people have already started implementing? Why would he not be given that kind of information that we do have comrades here who are already doing this ...

MR DE RU: Yes, as I already testified, Colonel Voigt and I were very good friends and comrades as well as colleagues. I have already illustrated to you that I was his greatest confidante.

MRS NOFEMELE: Yes, because the comrades got hold of an attorney by the name of Pashiro Senpad, he did nothing, he took us to Port Elizabeth office but there was nothing, no outcome from the case.

MRS MAZWAI: Late in the evening they phoned me and formally informed me about the bad tidings. They said he was travelling by car with three comrades. Two ran away and one who was left fighting until he was overpowered and shot to death. That is what they learned.

MR LAX: I will just need to check if I can keep my flight then, rather than loose it. With comrades tomorrow, it is going to be impossible to get another flight earlier, so will you just get Molly please.

Mr Hlongwane gave me a handgrenade. He was armed with a 38mm revolver. We left from Chris Ngwenya's home. Some of our comrades were armed with pangas and grass cutters. We then proceeded to Mr Shongwe's home and Israel Hlongwane ordered us to surround the house. He went, kicked the door in ...

... 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. ...

MR DINGANE: The father of this white man we had captured, came and went to the milking place. As we were in the house, the other comrades that were there, they hit him with a garden spade. He overpowered them, and he escaped and he went to fetch the firearm and he came back again.

It is not clear what the plan referred to by the applicant, was when he arrived in Cape Town. He says he told his comrades what the mission was, but the details of this mission were not forthcoming on cross-examination.

MR MASINA: In Swaziland I was assisting our other comrades who were supposed to come back to South Africa and those who were to leave South Africa to go to Angola and so forth.

... trial he testified against them and they were convicted and sentenced to terms of imprisonment. The applicant states that he testified against his comrades because he was ordered by members of the SBs to do so. They recruited him to work for them. At the time he knew that his evidence was ...

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 FRANCIS: Was that because someone in a much more senior position than Mr de Kock, had said that the role of Vlakplaas could go on or was it really because Mr de Kock and his comrades decided to continue with that role?

... they arrived - after their arrival, there’s an area called Gigi, there is nothing. On their arrival I was actually showing them the area where the comrades are, and they actually saw then singing and dancing, and what so ever and Mudla Induna and them. And Jabulani Makateni was there. But when ...

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

... 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 ...