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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 ?

... 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 ...

belonged to the ANC or to any other political party or are we comrades but they found out that we're just ordinary people.

that it is not between the ANC and the IFP. The pamphlets were actually bearing Cosatu logos, Communist Party logos, etc. and they were calling upon comrades to unite. That is when I started realising that this was actually between the IFP and the ANC as they had stated in the ...

... 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. ...

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 ...

... 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. ...

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 ...

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

MS FALATI: The culture of the comrades, of (...indistinct) so that anybody who wants to come here is (...indistinct) before.

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 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?

... there and these people were standing outside. We were arrested and we were charged for setting the bar alight and then we were left but my other comrades were sentenced for about 8 ...

CHAIRPERSON: Did you not find out from your comrades what this was all about, what is this Kangaroo Court that the newspapers are referring to?

He said that not one of his comrades from Botswana had come to him at any time, since the explosion to surmise that perhaps their letter had been intercepted and used to convey the bomb. Let me concede Mr Chairman, at the outset, that there is of course another possibility that if anybody did ...

MR LAMEY: Can you recall whether there was an interrogation with regard to the identities of these other comrades and with regard to the weapon caches?

MR RADEBE: I'm speaking about lawyers who were helping the comrades who did not have money, to have legal representatives.

DR RANDERA: Before you came to us, had you discussed events of that day with any of your comrades. Did you go to Ms Gasebue and told her about what happened or have you kept this to yourself all these years.

... of credibility, but I don't understand why somebody would say, 'well listen I think I went to a cafe, I took out a loaf of bread to go and feed the comrades who were starving in the bush. Some people think I stole that bread, but as far as I'm concerned I paid for that at the till but there's an ...

... 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 ...