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MR KOBESE: Thank you officials, parents, comrades and friends. I feel privileged that I should give this brief summary about the incident that occurred here in Uitenhage at the time of the shooting of the people in Langa. Firstly I would mention that it is of importance that we would see that the ...

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 ...

... my underwear. They did not ask me anything. They did not ask me in which organisation I belonged to. We were assaulted together with other comrades. There was one comrade by the name of Kilyeta Nyomakazi, they wanted to shoot him. After that they put us in ...

MR HANI: The ambushing of the ordinary, you know, White kids and women along some of our highways is something that is not acceptable and I am saying to these Comrades here that every member of the ANC should be a combatant by these type of things, a fighter for peace.

it may, Mr Mkhanela was again identified on the 16th March 1994 at the corner of Roets Drive and Moagi Street in Vosloorus by the applicants and his comrades when they were returning from a rally. It was then decided that they should kill Mr Mkhanela and then they devised a plan to detract the ...

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.

MR LAMEY: Can you recall whether there was an interrogation with regard to the identities of these other comrades and with regard to the weapon caches?

... a robber and said no, no, no, he was committing lots of bank robberies in order to keep the police busy so that they wouldn't chase political - his comrades, that was his contribution to the struggle. So the circumstances must be taken not in isolation, it's not only this but it's coupled with ...

MR GWALA: The reason why I went to collect them was because they were my comrades who would always assist me when we went out to fight the IFP.

He also does not know the name of the farm but the attack was carried out by him, Kleintjie and Scorpion. He does not know the proper names of his comrades because they were all using code names. Kleintjie has since deceased and "Scorpion" was used as a code name by several APLA cadres. The ...

... own disciplinary code where they enforced their will by intimidation and fear - those found buying goods from white-owned shops were forced by the comrades to eat their soap powder or drink their cooking oil. One of the most feared methods of intimidation was the so-called people's courts and ...

MS SOOKA: And after you buried Jimmy; at the funeral, did Jimmy have an activist funeral? Were you helped? Normally when an activist dies, in a community, then usually all the comrades would come to assist the family to bury. Did that happen with you as well?

... in a van and we wanted to run away. He stopped us. He said you must tell my family at Makwassie that April has died and he has been killed by the ...

MRS HONOKO: Thereafter many people came into the house. They were coming in and getting out and at this stage the comrades came into my house and they said to my husband they wanted their children to be buried on the very same day and the ceremony should be held at the stadium at Zone 7. My ...

... efforts were made to turn him and it might well be that under pressure, he said "I would become an informer" and then promptly went back to his comrades and told them what was ...

We welcomed these peoples as comrades in Duduza and we said to them we were prepared that we should be trained in order to fend off attacks from vigilantes in order to protect the community."

MR MASHUMI: Here in PE there was a mayor in our area, his name was Qnala, his house was destroyed together with the other one of the police and then some comrades were identified and I was - some of us were pointed out and then I ran away because I was scared.

... together with the people who’s relatives disappeared in exile. Whether they were killed by the enemy, whether they were killed by their own Comrades, whether they were killed in the camps or whichever way they were killed, the ANC said they would help us to try and answer questions of ...

... Yes, it is true that I would run away and rejoin the ANC, then the enemy inside the ANC would bring me back to the Republic as they did with my ...