comrades

MR DE KOCK: Yes, there was a messenger from the Civics Association who was there and the comrades were also there and they indicated that we could bury him there if we wanted to, but that they would exhume his body and burn his body afterwards.

... he states that Col de Kock also had information with regard to police actions and the members who were involved, which Brian may have given to his comrades, which could have led to the death of police officers. In other words, that police officers had already died as a result of such ...

... he has never been a member of the Security Branch, he was a Detective. He was a complete outsider, he was not one of this trusted inner-circle of comrades-in-arms pertaining to the Security Branch and specifically to Vlakplaas. We have filed affidavits on his behalf previously, and it has been ...

MR NTSHETHA: He was head of the comrades, because when there was a shortage of firearms, he had a way of distributing these as well as ammunition. We were in the position to gather funds and I would take the money to Osindisweni to go and fetch these. I would go and fetch these firearms, using ...

... 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 ...

MR LAX: Did you report the matter to higher IFP authorities to say: "Here is an IFP man in our area, armed with G3's intended for Self Protection Units. He's running amok in the area. Please come and do something about it." Did you say anything to your fellow IFP comrades to do that?

... 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 ...

MS LOCKHAT: Do you know how many people were injured on that day besides your own comrades?

... to say something during my child’s funeral, and it was clear that it’s all the youth were victimized. I asked to say something - I asked the comrades not to revenge to the AZAPO because the AZAPO’s and the PAC members were informers - police informer. They have lost their direction. ...

On 13 July 1986 the said Chauke arrived at the Applicant’s home. He was in the company of approximately forty persons who were all "comrades". He informed Applicant that they were going to fetch a person who was a police informer and that they were going to subject the informer to a trial. He ...

were attacked an killed. This was - as you heard in the evidence, was a result of the relationship between the IFP and the ANC and the need for ANC comrades, the SDUs, to protect their own people because they were continuously being attacked by members of the ...

... had to be destroyed and it was also to make our areas more ungovernable and to bring the struggle closer to the people because we had lost a lot of comrades in the Bontheuwel area that were detained and we wanted to stay ...

... town. Because informants were abundant in the government and the agents were constantly on the lookout for political groupings, our advice from comrades in Oudtshoorn was that we should not reflect any political affiliation in our youth organisation's constitution, but that such constitution ...

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 VISSER: And the persons amongst whom Mr Nceba and of course his comrades you regarded as trained terrorists?

MR VISSER: Reconnaissance, yes, ... done and Nceba and his comrades were obviously keen, as Mr Olifant said ...(intervention)

It was part of the plan that any firearms found there would;d be taken for use by comrades. At that stage there was already a number of Umkhonto weSizwe ("MK"), the military wing of the ANC, infiltrated into the area. the MK members trained the Applicant and some of the AYC members. On the day ...

CHAIRPERSON: You then deal with the fact that there were a number of askaris living on the farm, most of them were former members of the ANC and PAC, who had been trained overseas and had then joined you to act against their former comrades.

Then the reason for the next meeting was that Musi would go back to his comrades and ask them whether they would be happy to receive this internal training and they need not go out of the country and at that meeting they decided that there would be the training on the Monday and that on that ...

Mr Ntuli, can you briefly explain to the Committee the political climate in which this incident occurred, with specific reference to the number of your comrades who were being killed at that time.