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Joyce Seipei, for the first time publicly spoke of her hurt, grief and bitterness. At the time of Stompie’s death, she was gagged and denounced by comrades who towed the line that Stompie was not really dead. Joyce Seipei buried her son on February 25 1989, a day after Winnie Mandela told the ...

... plains of the Cape Flats was no exception. Here too a breed of urban teenagers took on the state: innocent, brave, committed. Many of these young comrades who lived and fought revolution now face another challenge; they struggle to confront the future, armed only with a badge of honour of ...

On that night we came from the new cross road, I was armed with a R4 rifle, other comrades were armed with shotguns and guns, and then we get to this stop, we see there’s no vans here. We’re sure that the van must stop at this stop, the nice place to deploy, is that place. So we move from this ...

... men were taken to the sports field and then, after the parade was over, they were formed into two groups, the Inkatha was let go and then the Comrades were sjambokked by the police, sjambokked and then arrested. Of course they went into detention because a state of emergency had been ...

Mrs. Mandela said I should take the minibus and go fetch those boys from the Methodist centre and I went to Winnie to find out if she had really said that. And I took the bus, after she said yes, with the other comrades.

four special constables and myself. // Who gave you the instruction to kill? Was that Major Terreblanche? // Yes the orders came from him that these comrades must be taken out. The whole operation went wrong, where the wrong people became ...

... the previous night, the 27th of June, 1985 at about 9 pm. You can imagine the shock, and I shivered to think what might had happened to these comrades. I kept the news secret for a while, from all the family, except for one person, my brother-in-law who was planning what to do next. On ...

... the declaration of a national state of emergency in July the burnt and mutilated bodies of Cradock High School principle Matthew Goniwe and three comrades were found in a deserted beach area outside Port Elizabeth. Police said circumstances surrounding their deaths were ...

... and all these kinds of people. I remember when I first raised the question about necklacing on the death of Maki Skosana everyone who spoke, my comrades, spoke about it as commenting on it. And they made it clear to me, you should stop commenting to condemn, right because we are not ...

... the new National Defence Force in a democratic South Africa. For these men and women it’s a day of achievement and celebration, but many of their comrades who fought and trained with them in the ANC camps did not return home. Some were killed by the South African security forces. Many died or ...

... that would probably engineer or facilitate this; the very clergy people were the people in the past whom we find that they were assisting the very comrades who were actually necklacing the councillors and they were actually providing them with attorneys, providing them with finance. Now where ...

Now this group of killers left and the Comrades came thereafter. When they arrived they called us all back. They said ‘please come back from your hiding place there …’ I searched all over the shack area for my wife and my child, I couldn’t find them and another person told me that ‘I’ve ...

... plans to undergo plastic surgery so that he would be able to live a new life after his killing orgies, unrecognizable to his victims and former comrades. Later in the programme we look at the question of symbolic rehabilitation of our nation, monuments, walls of remembrance, healing rituals. ...

... versus justice. The need for the truth, white fears and the role of the Truth Commission. On Wednesday night we joined Siphiwo Mtimkulu’s former comrades and friends to debate and discuss these issues. They are all former or current members of the South African Congress of Students of which ...

... State President FW de Klerk makes his dramatic speech in Parliament, unbanning the liberation movements and the release of Nelson Mandela and his comrades. For the majority of South Africans this meant the beginning of freedom and democracy. To right wing whites it was their worst nightmare ...

... had no idea what had happened to them, but five weeks after the remains were exhumed the families of Phila Ndwandwe and her ‘Butterfly Unit’ comrades were granted the wish of many families who have appeared before the TRC: the opportunity to reclaim their children’s bones and lay them to ...

I come here on behalf of my family. I come here to express the feeling of betrayal by compatriots and Comrades. I come here to express our disappointment and the way we feel cheated of a dear little brother, a promising young man, a brilliant young man. I come here to talk about the hypocrisy ...

‘Thank you comrades, can we settle down please.’ // The last word however belonged to the workers of COSATU. They were not amused by the apologies, explanations and sometimes fancy footwork of big business.

To the human rights violations hearings in the Free State town of Parys now. We have listened to many painful stories the last year, but what really stood out at the Parys hearings were the bizarre and inhumane methods of torture used by the police and the comrades during the 1980s and 1990s.

While many young men skipped the country during the 1980s many others stayed behind. Sipho Mutsi was one of hundreds of students from the Welkom area detained by police. But unlike most of his comrades Sipho never made it home.