comrades

... and brought him to the place where Maake and Makupe were being held. he was similarly interrogated but for a much longer time than his other two comrades allegedly because he was very brave and withstood torture more than his other colleagues. ...

"We were youths who were calling themselves comrades although we were not affiliated to any political party. Our main aim was to discipline people who were committing crimes".

MR SIBEKO: And you, with your comrades, got that information from Lucky Mampuru, who happened to have a co-operation or a working relationship with the members of the community of Everest, is that what you say?

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?

"He was not to recruit anybody pertinently. He came to me and said that he had been approached by the comrades element, the activists, to assist them with training abroad."

A meeting was held by ANC comrades to discuss the problem. The Applicant chaired the meeting and it was resolved that the deceased and his compatriots should be killed because they were making life unbearable for ANC supporters. They were also making it difficult for the Applicant and other ANC ...

According to the Applicant, the deceased participated in the killing of ANC comrades and he was part of the group that killed the former SDU commander, George Skarmora Machel.  The deceased was accordingly a political opponent of the ANC in the township at the time.

REVD XUNDU: Didn't you get any information from the comrades and his friends?

MR MATJILA: They said they don't want people, they wanted only family members to attend the night vigils not the community members. We forced matters because Jingles was one of our comrades.

MR NDLAZI: I was not there. I was told that they were actually remembering their comrades who died before on that day. They were sort of remembering them.

REVD FINCA: Mothers and comrades, we thank you for coming to share this with us. This event which I am sure will never be forgotten.

... to prevent the abuse of the young. In so doing we may begin to redefine what it means to be a child in South Africa and open city gates to their comrades who then took the city. This tale from antiquity has some similarities with our experiences. ...

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.

... in Wentworth and generally in South Africa were suffering. There was either no education or very poor education, jobs were scarce. Many of the comrades in my area who suffered as I did, shared the same political perception and we generally met in Ogal Road on numerous occasions and held ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

... was actually an operation, it was called Operation Zero Zero, which the Security Police were responsible for. What it involved was giving to young Comrades, grenades that people pretended to be from the underground, from Umkhonto we Sizwe, giving these youths these hand grenades which were, ...