comrades

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 TSHABALALA: We were friends and comrades.

... 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. ...

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?

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.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... --- It didn't take much time, it's just a few months and we quarrelled with the other SAP people, because we discovered that some of them were comrades and they also suspected that we were not just ordinary constables, but that we are under a certain mission(?). Therefore a conflict ...

... 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 ...

REV MOKWENA: They were Comrades at that time, but I do not know which particular structure that he belonged to.

... 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 ...

belonged to the ANC or to any other political party or are we comrades but they found out that we're just ordinary people.

... there and these people were standing outside. We were arrested and we were charged for setting the bar alight and then we were left but my other comrades were sentenced for about 8 ...

... 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 ...

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?

CHAIRPERSON: Mrs Mahlangu, I have a question to you to follow-up relating to the Putco bus. According to our research and some statements we have on that day, apparently, some 300 Putco buses were commandeered by the comrades to take them to the funeral of Jacob Skosana.

They left and approximately an hour or two later went back and found him. They used pseudo names and posed as comrades who had been sent to collect him to transport him to exile where he would undergo military training. He agreed to accompany them.

... agenda, namely an interest to rob money in going to Mr de Villier's farm and that, despite any political objective he may have shared with his comrades, he had gone there in an attempt to obtain more than just arms and that his primary aim was to enrich ...

The gang allegedly targeted ANC members and killed them or harassed them or inflicted injuries to them. The applicant and some of his comrades stayed in Gelukwaarts which was known as the new township of Maokeng. Sometime prior to the 30th of October 1992, the applicant was being sought by white ...