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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.

MR DLAMINI: I have three children who were comrades. They were always on the alert because they were ANC members. At that time any ANC Comrade was to be killed.

MR SHANGASE: I found Mrs Mbuyazi and she asked me as to how the situation was in Durban and how the comrades are in Durban, are they not¼(intervention)

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?

MR MOTHIBE: I went to Shell House together with some comrades, we were five in number. When we arrived at Shell House, we were supposed to inform Zakes, but we did not find him there. We found Jackie Selebe, now the Commissioner of the Police and we informed Jackie about the situation. Comrade ...

MS MTANGA: Did you associate with any people who were then regarded as comrades, that is in 1989?

... was passed urging ministers to assist refugees and victims of repression by inter alia providing sanctuary or safe houses. I have assisted many comrades in finding safe houses and I cannot recall the specifics of each and every ...

However, with regard to the act of robbery of Mathonsi's firearm, we are not satisfied that this firearm was in fact removed from Mathonsi by the applicant or his comrades. Consquently, we

VM MBENGO: He used to call us comrades and he would say we were not going to rule as convicts.

... of chief the reasoning behind him not naming his accomplices at the time of his trial. The logic was that one doesn't implicate one's fellow comrades if one gets arrested by the ...

... who refused to treat you because of the apartheid system. These names will come and they will be revealed to people. Sir, together with other Comrades, we do remember your struggle, your participation in the struggle. We thank you very ...

MR NGQEZA: I was not there, I was at NU7. I was one of the people that prepared for Thozamile Qoto's funeral, but I told the Comrades that I would not be able to go back to the funeral. One of the reasons why I was not going to be able to go to the funeral was because the police was aware that I ...

I was not sure exactly who shot my son. Between Ketile - between Ketile and Thabo - I was not sure exactly who shot my son, but only the comrades who were together with my son were arrested.

MR CEBEKHULU: We knew that they were ANC and that they were comrades and sometimes they will publish that we should stay away from work and the reason my uncle was killed was because he didn't obey that.

MR VERMEULEN: We instructed them there, Willie instructed them that they had to go into the Chesterville area and that they had to try and gain information or try and contact the so-called comrades or SDU units.

... houses. They looted the houses and they took the contents of the houses, and they would burn the houses down immediately thereafter. We took the comrades who were injured to the hospital, and after the houses had been burnt down it's only then that the police came to quell the violence. They ...

I’ve tried to list some of our Comrades who died during the situation leading up to the trial. Some of them were staying in the same sections, people like Sam Malinga, ......... was taken in for interrogation. He looked very looked very blithe in a situation where many people couldn’t even ...

... are with us still, crimes of sexual violence blur with the political. In our submission we describe gangs of youth, some of them demobilised young Comrades, for example, who have formed themselves into a group called SARA, South African Rapists Association. These youth roam the streets, ...

... He was not there when the deceased refused to be searched but was aware of it at the time of the incident since he had been so informed by his comrades. He also knew first hand of the deceased’s refusal to be searched at a roadblock earlier that day and that he had breached the boycott. ...