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MR SOKO: Some of the comrades were making utterances that they were going to kill him. I think I was the one who assaulted him.

CHAIRPERSON: But these are the people who were your comrades for almost a year, for more than a year, you worked together closely as a unit, as an assault unit of APLA?

According to his testimony, the Applicant and his comrades Denis Moeti and Abram Zweli together with their commander, Moss Mothopo, aslo known as Ramapapa, left Alexandra for Springs, on the day of the incident. Moeti could not be traced and Zweli who is in prison did not attend the hearing. ...

The gang allegedly targeted ANC members and killed them or harassed them or inflicted injuries to them. The applicant and some of his comrades stayed in Gelukwaarts which was known as the new township of Maokeng. Sometime prior to the 30th of October 1992, the applicant was being sought by white ...

... agenda, namely an interest to rob money in going to Mr de Villier's farm and that, despite any political objective he may have shared with his comrades, he had gone there in an attempt to obtain more than just arms and that his primary aim was to enrich ...

... him with two firearms and a knife. He had no previous training in the use of firearms. Nzimande also gave him the authority to get two (2) other comrades to assist him to carry out the mission. Nzimande had identified the target. When he approached his accomplices they looked a bit ...

CHAIRPERSON: Mrs Mahlangu, I have a question to you to follow-up relating to the Putco bus. According to our research and some statements we have on that day, apparently, some 300 Putco buses were commandeered by the comrades to take them to the funeral of Jacob Skosana.

4. A witness of the Douglas Commission alleges a mutiny in 1977, which was suppressed by Mr Ronnie Kasrils "by giving orders to an East German trained platoon to lock the comrades up". Can problematic events involving dissatisfaction of cadres in 1977 be described? How was the matter dealt with?

They left and approximately an hour or two later went back and found him. They used pseudo names and posed as comrades who had been sent to collect him to transport him to exile where he would undergo military training. He agreed to accompany them.

MS MTANGA: Did you associate with any people who were then regarded as comrades, that is in 1989?

... was going to get into this sack and I said to them "No, you are not going to put me into any water, cold as it is", so they asked me "Who were your comrades?" There was a list of names and I was the first on this list followed by Tobula Busako and next was Lulamile Tonsi, there were others like, ...

... them again the next day.  Moshoaliba told the deceased to return to the post office in Manzini where they were going to meet the so-called MK comrades.  The fact that these were askaris was also unknown to the trio.  Later Coetzee heard that the trio had been led into an ambush and were ...

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

Unfortunately, there were Comrades. The others who were in the struggle, the colleagues to Leo, there were others who were from abroad, those who were coming from Johannesburg they were turned back some of them. I can mention that everybody experienced a horrible experience because people were ...

... took him to the police station. He was a joke, all the boers were laughing at him and asking, why didn't he protect himself and where the other comrades were, why didn't they protect him? All the people were there who were shot and Vus was put on the ground and he was not covered. The Boers ...

took him, went to a small hill where we spoke to him telling him about the Ngquza calamity. He said to us, Comrades, there is nothing I can do and you cannot fight whilst you are outside. You can fight a bit better when you are inside. What he was advising us to do is for us to elect our own ...

And then he continues with the request that the askari be brought to Vlakplaas, so that he could make contact with some of his former comrades and if he saw that they were cooperating nicely with the Security Branch, that could bring him to a different way of thinking and "he could then cooperate ...

a state of emergency and then the askaris were very active in road blocks, in patrolling with the Security Forces and then they were identifying our comrades and the possibility of being killed in a large number was there, so it was decided that to play it safe, myself and the late William Madisi ...

... he and commander Sipho Mahlangu threw hand grenades at the police. In the ensuing confusion he managed to get away but his commando and two other comrades died. He went to Johannesburg and from there later made his way to Ficksburg from where he crossed into Lesotho. ...

... Station they were confronted by a member of the South African Police who demanded to search them. The Applicant shot the policeman and he and his comrades fled the scene. The policeman was injured in the shooting. The mine was never placed at ...