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... had to be destroyed and it was also to make our areas more ungovernable and to bring the struggle closer to the people because we had lost a lot of comrades in the Bontheuwel area that were detained and we wanted to stay ...

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

went there as a family. We were going to visit him as usual. Pres Mandela was also present on the day of the celebration and some of the other comrades were also there. When we went back home, he was about to be released, because out of the 15 years I think, he spent only three years. When his ...

DR RANDERA: She wasn’t part of the Comrades, she wasn’t part of the UDF, she hadn’t been involved in burning houses, attacking people ?

... it was just hanging over together with a bullet. Fortunately it did not fall off, it just hung on my face. I tried to put my jawbone back. The comrades then realised that I had been injured. It was obvious. It was a distance of about ten metres, somebody else got shot and fell over. ...

... a robber and said no, no, no, he was committing lots of bank robberies in order to keep the police busy so that they wouldn't chase political - his comrades, that was his contribution to the struggle. So the circumstances must be taken not in isolation, it's not only this but it's coupled with ...

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

... day there were threats which I received from the other organisation. They said I could be targeted. On the 30th April, the same year, there were comrades, a large group of them who came to my place. ...

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.

On the 7th of September according to a report we received from his school mates, we last saw him on the 7th, on the afternoon of the 7th they, according to his school mates, they were sitting at a house in NU 10 where a fellow female comrades of theirs stayed.

... that politically the intensity and that was during the time of the UDF and the mass democratic movement, this whole situation was intensified. The comrades were there, there was a situation where certain pressure was exerted on the communities. And revolutionary concept developed and it could ...

ADV DE JAGER: Did he give some of the plastic bags with coins to the other comrades to keep with them?

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.

DR RANDERA: I want to come back to this incident about the principal and the school. It seems like the youth or the comrades actually targeted schools at that time. Is that right?

MR DLAMINI: Yes he was staying in Edendale but most of the time I would find at Makabisa where the ANC comrades used to gather.

Indeed I was taken to Mr Mbongwane's house. It was said to be his second wife, which I didn't know. Then I spent that night there. I had supper, comrades who knew me came in. Some gentlemen and some ladies who knew me came and we chatted. I had a nice sleep there.

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 ...

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.

... 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 ...