comrades

MR MASILO: It was one of our PAC comrades.

When I arrived at home, there were comrades there trying to comfort my mother. We tried to find out what happened to him as he was taken by the police, we couldn't find anything.

... the back were, the electric wiring was burned, you didn't even see the chords. There was a very big hole that led to next door. We found people, comrades came back, we repaired and renovated our house. The electricity was fixed the very same day and Mr Fassi gave us a bed. I said, No Toby, can ...

... was passed urging ministers to assist refugees and victims of repression by inter alia providing sanctuary or safe houses. I have assisted many comrades in finding safe houses and I cannot recall the specifics of each and every ...

... houses. They looted the houses and they took the contents of the houses, and they would burn the houses down immediately thereafter. We took the comrades who were injured to the hospital, and after the houses had been burnt down it's only then that the police came to quell the violence. They ...

However, with regard to the act of robbery of Mathonsi's firearm, we are not satisfied that this firearm was in fact removed from Mathonsi by the applicant or his comrades. Consquently, we

... are with us still, crimes of sexual violence blur with the political. In our submission we describe gangs of youth, some of them demobilised young Comrades, for example, who have formed themselves into a group called SARA, South African Rapists Association. These youth roam the streets, ...

MR SAMUEL: Now you described deaths of IFP people in the area, what did this do to you and other people psychologically, how did you feel when these deaths of your comrades occurred in the area?

I’ve tried to list some of our Comrades who died during the situation leading up to the trial. Some of them were staying in the same sections, people like Sam Malinga, ......... was taken in for interrogation. He looked very looked very blithe in a situation where many people couldn’t even ...

MS SOOKA: And why do you think the comrades wanted to - why do you think they burned him?

MR MALAN: Was he one of the comrades, Dan Cele?

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?

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 ...

CHAIRPERSON: When people were arrested in Bedford, when you were arrested, sorry, in Bedford were there any Comrades who were arrested?

The other comrades approached from the direction where his vehicle would drive off and the others approached from below the house. On hearing shots, some people whom we could not see, fired towards us. At the time I could not see Mr Mkhize because there were gunshots very close to where we were, ...

... 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 MAMASELA: I will say that's a blatant lie because most Askaris, they were used extensively to interrogate even their own comrades who were arrested to win their hearts. So I believe in a sense that we were the masters of interrogation, not the normal police interrogation of putting a sack and ...

The comrades took us and they tried to remove the pellets, it is only three pellets now that are embedded in my body and after some time that affected me because I normally have sharp pains, I feel dizzy some times.

MR MAHUMAPELO: I wouldn't explain further, because other comrades have explained. We had water shortage and we were fetching water from the Indian centre and other areas nearby in our area.

charge of the hospital then. Then he said to them no he doesn't have comrades here, he has got only patients there. He cannot allow that police - that people should come and arrest patients here before they can be released. All that was actually heard from the sisters who were working in that ...