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He was a member of the ANC, he was in the struggle together with the other comrades. They would go from town to town together with others. They would fight with the PAC people.

We had just bus loads of UDF activists and other anti-apartheid organisation activists had also returned from the funerals of Matthew Goniwe and his comrades in the Eastern Cape, and I think that we had come back with a sense of what the government was capable of and a sense of outrage that those ...

CHAIRPERSON: Now how did you establish that he had been killed by your comrades?

My brother's friends, the other Comrades, came the next morning and the police came. They started chasing those friends outside our yard and they started beating those boys with their guns and they were badly injured. They took some to the hospital. On the day of the night vigil the police came ...

CHAIRPERSON: You are talking here about 11 comrades who were arrested together with you maybe. Among them, did you know any, or did you know all of them?

thereafter. The comrades went to dig out our father's grave, which is still at NY5 here.

Comrades and friends. Thank you very very much, this last period and the people who have come forward has been a very difficult time for all of you as you have been sitting here and listening, and I'm not just talking about the discomfort you're feeling standing at the back or sitting on the ...

There was a funeral in the location. It was one of the comrades who was shot and dead, his name was Thomas Segolo. So it was his funeral and it was on Friday. The situation in the location was not stable. There was a tense situation I would explain it that way. The youth was not stable ...

... were not supposed to be assaulted anymore because we did not commit a bigger offence. Stompie should be continually beaten because he sold out the comrades". Guybon started kicking Stompie, hitting him against the wall, and thereafter he ...

more than 15, because Comrades were more than 15 in the cell they would go to one

One of the comrades came, by the name of Master, residing nearby our home and he made all the necessary arrangements.

MR CORNELIUS: And just for clarity for the Committee, I understand there has already been an application by your other comrades of the Task Force, but you were not subpoenaed to attend that.

MR MAPELA: Comrades said I must go to a doctor, Dr Mashlangeni, who is late. I went to him. They said that if I want to lay charges I would have to give Dr Mashlangeni's report and then go to the State Doctor. It is he who was going to confirm what Mashlangeni had diagnosed. I thought it was ...

was to embrace and bring into the ANC and into the struggle all those elements that were willing to participate inside of the struggle. We had also comrades like Akino Hein Grosskopf for instance, who was drawn into the operations. He carried out some of those operations. There were various ...

... five she came back from the prayer meeting. She went into the bedroom to undress, her last borne came in by the name Nobolelo to tell her that the Comrades were going to come and they were burning where they were. ...

that it is quite disturbing that the people or the perpetrators were collaborating with the people that we trusted, that is our neighbours or fellow Comrades. We do hope that even when you do get some evidence to the effect that these people that you know were involved in the deaths of your ...

into one of the neighbouring Bantustans. In the context, Councillors were seen as part o the discredited Apartheid System and the Applicant and his comrades were prepared to do anything to bring the system to its ...

CHAIRPERSON: Now then, if it was fiction, whatever you said, how would that affect your friends and your comrades, they wouldn't be affected because it it all fiction?

... the Committee to the test which while being critical, is subjective. What did the applicants perceive. They perceived the killing of one of their comrades as a political deed. They had their reasons which were cogent and coherent as to why they saw taxi violence as political and when a ...

... spy and they also tried to sabotage me by taking photographs which they claimed they will use to blackmail me for accepting a bribe to implicate my ...