comrades

MR MAZIBUKO: Well, the submission covers the training part, you see. When we were trained, we were trained inside the country, we were trained by comrades from Johannes Nkosi Unit which was the Regional Command Structure of MK. Comrade Ernest Sigasa was the Commander if that particular Unit. It ...

... separate cells, I was in the first cell, he was in the second cell and Chiba was at the end. We also subsequently learnt that there were two White comrades there, Leon Levy and Wolfie Kodesh(?) were in the White section. The way we were able to keep a bit sane was by - especially at night, was ...

he was the one who, after everybody was convinced that the deceased was not at home, searched and found him hiding in a wardrobe; he then called his comrades and the assault started. With regard to the attempted murder, the applicant says he personally also stoned the ...

... the previous night of the 27th of June 1985 at about 9 pm. You can imagine the shock, and I shivered to think what might have happened to these ...

After robbing Lesia of his vehicle Gqomfa and his comrades proceeded to the Mayaputhi – Sterkspruit Bridge. Mphahlele was in charge of the operation. He was armed with a .38 Spanish Revolver and they all took orders from him. The applicant was armed with a R5 automatic rifle, Ben a 9mm pistol ...

I also heard Comrades who were also with me, but they were arrested after me. They were in a place called [indistinct] it’s a place in a court where the jail people were use to be kept the prisioners were used to be kept when they are going to stand against. He said your co-accused are also in ...

MR MOPEDI: Why was it necessary for you with your comrades, to attack or to target Mr Sithole?

MR MAMASELA: I will say that's a blatant lie because most Askaris, they were used extensively to interrogate even their own comrades who were arrested to win their hearts. So I believe in a sense that we were the masters of interrogation, not the normal police interrogation of putting a sack and ...

The comrades took us and they tried to remove the pellets, it is only three pellets now that are embedded in my body and after some time that affected me because I normally have sharp pains, I feel dizzy some times.

charge of the hospital then. Then he said to them no he doesn't have comrades here, he has got only patients there. He cannot allow that police - that people should come and arrest patients here before they can be released. All that was actually heard from the sisters who were working in that ...

The other comrades approached from the direction where his vehicle would drive off and the others approached from below the house. On hearing shots, some people whom we could not see, fired towards us. At the time I could not see Mr Mkhize because there were gunshots very close to where we were, ...

... town. Because informants were abundant in the government and the agents were constantly on the lookout for political groupings, our advice from comrades in Oudtshoorn was that we should not reflect any political affiliation in our youth organisation's constitution, but that such constitution ...

At the time though, we were always fleeing them, because the ANC people would not suffer attacks. I and other people, who were well versed in politics, we were - I and other comrades in the IFP, who were well versed in politics, did not regard the ANC as an enemy.

ADV PRIOR: Well certainly Dolo on the evidence occupies a far stronger position and a far more responsible position than his comrades, I mean he was in charge of the operation. He could tell them where to go, he could tell them to withdraw or not, to shoot or not. And in fact because we don't ...

"Insofar as it was suggested that Mr X said that Simelane was murdered by us, it is untrue. It is my conviction that she was killed by her own MK comrades. And I am informed that in the ANC's submission to the TRC, they admitted that they had killed some of their own members. Several murders and ...

MR MAJUJA: Because I put it to you that Sergeant Makhudu in most cases, he was the one who was tipping comrades about the pending arrests.

of the young people to these councils, because you say that those who came to your house singing songs, were youth? In your statement you say, young comrades. Do you have any idea of how they felt about these councils that you sat on and that was at the chief's ...

... it is that they are saying. They say a corpse was discovered in Britz and it is not known who the killer, the marauders were. We cried and some Comrades came in to ask what has happened. We have seen on the TV what has happened. ...

MR RAMAILA: As I'm in prison the very prison I'm based in is maximum prison. Now there I had never had an opportunity to meet with other comrades from Daveton, seeing as I'm from Daveton, that they could now fulfil every detail with regards to the membership.

EXAMINATION BY MR NYAWUZA: Thank you Mr Chairman. Mr Sibanyoni, two of your comrades have already testified relating to an incident that happened on the 31st of July 1990.