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... my own particular experience with having been a victim of the repressive system in the past, I know that there are very close family and friends, comrades, who even 20 odd years after a detention, and that detention may have been for a very short period of time, and may have involved some ...

... clothed in a political blanket to enhance his chances to obtain amnesty but even if he had a political motive his actions and the actions of his comrades under his control were clearly disproportionate to his political objective of stealing a weapon. ...

What happened is that before the Wesselsbron attack, my comrades, that is Ryber, who is Bhani, arrived, as I was expecting him from Umtata. When he arrived, I took him from Welkom to Wesselsbron at Mnyagene Township. Mnyagene Township I sought accommodation for him and then he found that ...

... it was just hanging over together with a bullet. Fortunately it did not fall off, it just hung on my face. I tried to put my jawbone back. The comrades then realised that I had been injured. It was obvious. It was a distance of about ten metres, somebody else got shot and fell over. ...

DR RANDERA: She wasn’t part of the Comrades, she wasn’t part of the UDF, she hadn’t been involved in burning houses, attacking people ?

MR WILLIAMS: It's Mjaban, he's presently in Portugal. He's the one who came here and we met, he spoke about the AK47 because there were a lot of comrades who came to my workplace who were like to be involved in this armed robbery.

MR FORTUIN: Do you know of - was that the period as was commonly known in the Western Cape where the Witdoeke and the comrades were in conflict with one another, 1991?

... all honesty to get clarity because we could not get from your evidence when you actually saw the two firearms which were in the possession of your comrades when you went there. We couldn't get clarity when they were obtained or when you first saw them. I just want you to tell us when did you ...

MR NHLAPO: At the time of my arrest the police wanted to know where I resided and I knew that if I took them to Mandela squatter camp where I resided, they would discover the other comrades that I was with and then I decided to refer them to Emdene 1206.

MR VAN DEN BERG: I then also see that you are wearing a jersey with a Comrades Marathon emblem?

... of the Ndwedwe district must be killed. The targeted taxi owner was a Mr Gumede and the reason given for his elimination was the he transported comrades (supporters of the ANC). Mfayela pointed out the taxi owner’s house to the applicant and told him that after he killed him he must take the ...

... testified that he is and was at the time of the incident, a member of the African National Congress, who was trained in Swaziland. He and his comrades Baba Majola and Mduduzi Xaba, now deceased, acted on the orders of their commander Ralph, who died in Swaziland. He is unable to remember ...

... steps. We went to make a statement at Khosa House, we made a statement there. We met Mr Chris Naidoo. I don't remember the date. We took all the comrades to that place, the witnesses who were there were five, whom I met with to Johannesburg. They were taken to the doctor. I don't know what ...

went there as a family. We were going to visit him as usual. Pres Mandela was also present on the day of the celebration and some of the other comrades were also there. When we went back home, he was about to be released, because out of the 15 years I think, he spent only three years. When his ...

... she was very active in that period in the East Rand. Her, the colleagues of the ANC's regional leadership would race to these areas and remind the comrades and members of discipline, of policy as we would from a national level and I would say that those who carried out such an act wouldn't argue ...

Then at the end of the vigil there was a service then also a vigil for the comrades and he came in, swollen as he was and he was asked, what is the problem Siphiwo and then he explained that he had been taken away and then blindfolded and his hands were manacled together with his feet and they ...

... had to exercise caution that those people on the left-hand side of the vehicle should not fire into the crates and thereby endangering their own comrades. I accordingly instructed him that he had to ensure that they had to know exactly in which direction to fire if ...

... It was a boy's funeral, he was also involved in all this mess. I think that these people were young ANC members and when they went to bury their comrades, they got shot and some of them died as a result. They were being attacked during night vigils. That is where the police used to shoot at ...

MR NGCOBO: There were some of our comrades from the Mpangalo, people such as Mr Bernard Mkhize.

... 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. ...