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MR NKALA: Congress told us that he had obtained other comrades. If my memory serves me well, we counted them up to 10 - up to 17 people, including Congress.

It is not clear what the plan referred to by the applicant, was when he arrived in Cape Town. He says he told his comrades what the mission was, but the details of this mission were not forthcoming on cross-examination.

MR MASINA: In Swaziland I was assisting our other comrades who were supposed to come back to South Africa and those who were to leave South Africa to go to Angola and so forth.

MR DINGANE: The father of this white man we had captured, came and went to the milking place. As we were in the house, the other comrades that were there, they hit him with a garden spade. He overpowered them, and he escaped and he went to fetch the firearm and he came back again.

MR FRANCIS: Was that because someone in a much more senior position than Mr de Kock, had said that the role of Vlakplaas could go on or was it really because Mr de Kock and his comrades decided to continue with that role?

Mr Hlongwane gave me a handgrenade. He was armed with a 38mm revolver. We left from Chris Ngwenya's home. Some of our comrades were armed with pangas and grass cutters. We then proceeded to Mr Shongwe's home and Israel Hlongwane ordered us to surround the house. He went, kicked the door in ...

... that politically the intensity and that was during the time of the UDF and the mass democratic movement, this whole situation was intensified. The comrades were there, there was a situation where certain pressure was exerted on the communities. And revolutionary concept developed and it could ...

CHAIRPERSON: Was it possible at that time to know the conflict that was going on between the Mbcoto and the comrades? Do you think he knew about this and they started to follow him?

MR DLAMINI: Yes he was staying in Edendale but most of the time I would find at Makabisa where the ANC comrades used to gather.

MR MANDLAZI: I was based in Mozambique, Maputo, as a reporting officer there and I was responsible for a safe house where we used to keep our comrades who were either going home or those who were coming back from home and of course this safe house was our - that is, the department of intelligence ...

MR MEMANI: And you heard Motsamai testify that Mr Nichos was a courier and you’ve already commented on that. You also heard Mr Motsamai testify that Nichos used to help comrades in the township.

... ANC. Especially J1, that is one section that is closer to J2 and they used to tell me quite a lot about this section, complaining about comrades who were giving them trouble. I then agreed to join them for those reasons. But I started by phoning Delatholo Luthuli at Ulundi and ...

it may, Mr Mkhanela was again identified on the 16th March 1994 at the corner of Roets Drive and Moagi Street in Vosloorus by the applicants and his comrades when they were returning from a rally. It was then decided that they should kill Mr Mkhanela and then they devised a plan to detract the ...

The deceased was attacked by, amongst others, the two applicants. That night the applicants together with their other comrades, decided to visit some taverns to, as they put it, disarm people they regarded as enemies of the ANC. Their first victim was the second applicant. The latter was at the ...

it was organised by the Civic and after that when they went there. So my younger brother was visiting there the aunt. Unfortunately, he joined the Comrades as usual. Then after a few days we heard from the aunt that the boy did not return. So we had a problem. After that we went looking for ...

... duties by investigating these crimes and hence at that stage they were involved in the investigation of all crime, whether it was committed by the comrades or Piet Ntuli and Mbokoto. All crime was investigated by them. MOUTSE HEARING ...

came to meet us is Mhlambo. On his arrival he came, it was about in November when he was already buried, our son, he came at a time when one of our comrades Chris Hani had died. Then he passed by our house just to pass and convey sympathies to us saying that he knew this child, he underwent ...

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.

... have victims, people who died in the struggle and eventual reconciliation can only come about if these people are also honoured together with the comrades who were honoured by means of a play ...

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.