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REVD XUNDU: And there was a quarrel between himself and you said in your statement, between himself and comrades. What was the cause of this?

MR NGCOBO: There were some of our comrades from the Mpangalo, people such as Mr Bernard Mkhize.

MR MATHEBE: At that time, we received a message from the members of our community that there is somebody called Mishi who usually comes and abducts comrades. He was working in cahoots with the police and they explained or described him to us and then we decided that we should go and fetch him. ...

And do you have any idea why they attacked you and your family and burnt your house down? --- They were saying my children were comrades and the whole family was ANC.

... because I was a student at that time and I was their informer and I was exposed as an informer and I could not stay in the areas where my fellow comrades would be aware of. The alternative was for them to hide me there at Mr Venter's house and I could understand their reason because I was ...

MR FRANCIS: And we also know that at that stage I think Winnie Mandela was being isolated by her own comrades, it was just shortly after the Stompie Sepei trial?

I didn’t see any policemen, any comrades, there was nothing about my child. If this woman was not here to tell me where my child was, I would still be not aware of what happened with my child.

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.

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

"The comrades she was supposed to meet were in a bakkie, they were wearing rolled balaclavas on their heads and she obviously thought everything was okay as she went with them" etc.

We welcomed these peoples as comrades in Duduza and we said to them we were prepared that we should be trained in order to fend off attacks from vigilantes in order to protect the community."

MRS HONOKO: Thereafter many people came into the house. They were coming in and getting out and at this stage the comrades came into my house and they said to my husband they wanted their children to be buried on the very same day and the ceremony should be held at the stadium at Zone 7. My ...

MS SOOKA: And after you buried Jimmy; at the funeral, did Jimmy have an activist funeral? Were you helped? Normally when an activist dies, in a community, then usually all the comrades would come to assist the family to bury. Did that happen with you as well?

me to bury him the same week. The comrades and the activists were in my house. I was called together with my husband. The police came, they told us we must bury him immediately. We told them we are not going to do that because we have to tell our family members, we have to inform them about ...

... together with the people who’s relatives disappeared in exile. Whether they were killed by the enemy, whether they were killed by their own Comrades, whether they were killed in the camps or whichever way they were killed, the ANC said they would help us to try and answer questions of ...

MR MASHUMI: Here in PE there was a mayor in our area, his name was Qnala, his house was destroyed together with the other one of the police and then some comrades were identified and I was - some of us were pointed out and then I ran away because I was scared.

... in a van and we wanted to run away. He stopped us. He said you must tell my family at Makwassie that April has died and he has been killed by the ...

MR MADLALA: First of all they would come to school and shoot at us. There were other comrades who were shot at Wembezi High, that is a sign that these people were fighting and they died. After that Thulani was also killed, Thulani Mabasu. There are other people, many people who followed and ...

... I fled because I thought that there could be people who saw me doing all this and maybe there were people who were inside the house who were his comrades. ...

... 1986, it was about 8 o'clock, it was on a Friday, a group of boys came to my house singing and they were saying, "Come on soldier, join, join the comrades", and they asked," Where's Mandhla, where's Debry?" And I went outside and said, "Who are you, when you say you are soldiers." I said to ...