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... 1986, it was about 8 o'clock, it was on a Friday, a group of boys came to my house singing and they were saying, "Come on soldier, join, join the comrades", and they asked," Where's Mandhla, where's Debry?" And I went outside and said, "Who are you, when you say you are soldiers." I said to ...

MR PRIOR: And did any of your comrades further up towards the bridge, did they also fire at this vehicle?

... DEN BERG: Matthews told me that when they got to Eendvogelpan's house, the person who sat in the front of the van, in the passenger seat, told his comrades "get your guns and be ready". It was also said to Matthews that if we land up in a road-block, not only us will get hurt, you will get hurt ...

When I tried to tell my mother that she must know that I'm being arrested, the Whites took me to the hippo. They said I must lie there because some of the comrades were already there.

Gantwani then said let us wait for this people to pass. We then did, but they didn't pass, they came to us and they greeted us. They addressed us as comrades.

Policemen in the building returned fire. The 1st Applicant and his two comrades then ran to the vehicle in which the 3rd Applicant was waiting for them. They got to the vehicle without incident and drove away.

... that had been used on him and the feat that had been instilled into him, he agreed to accompany them that night and point out houses of some of his ...

REVD XUNDU: And there was a quarrel between himself and you said in your statement, between himself and comrades. What was the cause of this?

... because I was a student at that time and I was their informer and I was exposed as an informer and I could not stay in the areas where my fellow comrades would be aware of. The alternative was for them to hide me there at Mr Venter's house and I could understand their reason because I was ...

MR KOTA: I think she died five days after that. It was after comrades went to visit her and members of the organisation.

was unaware of any attack upon Sikhakhane's relatives. He was not a member of any political organisation at the time and did not associate with the comrades. He was a member of the trade union, which was affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions ("Cosatu"), at the cement factory ...

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 ...

... should be aware that the decision should be in writing and it would be done as soon as possible in respect of what it did and it goes for all your comrades as well. Mr Mbandazayo, we do reserve this one. You would be informed in due course just to be on the safe ...

MR MATHEBE: At that time, we received a message from the members of our community that there is somebody called Mishi who usually comes and abducts comrades. He was working in cahoots with the police and they explained or described him to us and then we decided that we should go and fetch him. ...

MR DUMAKUDE: For sure I took it upon myself. Somewhere in my document I've mentioned the three devices. This was partly to counter any eventuality. This was also explained to the comrades as the participant in this operation.

According to the Applicant, the deceased participated in the killing of ANC comrades and he was part of the group that killed the former SDU commander, George Skarmora Machel.  The deceased was accordingly a political opponent of the ANC in the township at the time.

MR FRANCIS: And we also know that at that stage I think Winnie Mandela was being isolated by her own comrades, it was just shortly after the Stompie Sepei trial?

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

Now to come to your question. In the African National Congress, religion has been upheld. I've held funerals myself, I've buried my own comrades with a prayer. But I can tell you also I'm an arch-atheist, so I don't believe his story. This will be untrue. This will be untrue, he will not be - ...

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?