comrades

MR MOGANO: Yes, he was the leader of the comrades.

CHAIRPERSON: Did you not find out from your comrades what this was all about, what is this Kangaroo Court that the newspapers are referring to?

... Mr Snoek, its really very simple. You had to operate according to orders. You got specific orders. What would happen to you? What would your Comrades do to you? What would your Commanders do to you, if you did other things beside what you had been ordered to do? That’s really the question. ...

... --- 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 ...

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

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

What happened is that before the Wesselsbron attack, my comrades, that is Ryber, who is Bhani, arrived, as I was expecting him from Umtata. When he arrived, I took him from Welkom to Wesselsbron at Mnyagene Township. Mnyagene Township I sought accommodation for him and then he found that ...

MR MANTHATA: On coming out of the hospital there was never a follow-up of what happened to some of your comrades and their families perhaps?

DR RANDERA: Before you came to us, had you discussed events of that day with any of your comrades. Did you go to Ms Gasebue and told her about what happened or have you kept this to yourself all these years.

MR MANDLAZI: I was based in Mozambique, Maputo, as a reporting officer there and I was responsible for a safe house where we used to keep our comrades who were either going home or those who were coming back from home and of course this safe house was our - that is, the department of intelligence ...

MR DLAMINI: Yes he was staying in Edendale but most of the time I would find at Makabisa where the ANC comrades used to gather.

MR MEMANI: And you heard Motsamai testify that Mr Nichos was a courier and you’ve already commented on that. You also heard Mr Motsamai testify that Nichos used to help comrades in the township.

MRS NOFEMELE: Yes, because the comrades got hold of an attorney by the name of Pashiro Senpad, he did nothing, he took us to Port Elizabeth office but there was nothing, no outcome from the case.

On the 7th of September according to a report we received from his school mates, we last saw him on the 7th, on the afternoon of the 7th they, according to his school mates, they were sitting at a house in NU 10 where a fellow female comrades of theirs stayed.

MRS MAZWAI: Late in the evening they phoned me and formally informed me about the bad tidings. They said he was travelling by car with three comrades. Two ran away and one who was left fighting until he was overpowered and shot to death. That is what they learned.

MR NKALA: Congress told us that he had obtained other comrades. If my memory serves me well, we counted them up to 10 - up to 17 people, including Congress.

Then the reason for the next meeting was that Musi would go back to his comrades and ask them whether they would be happy to receive this internal training and they need not go out of the country and at that meeting they decided that there would be the training on the Monday and that on that ...

and the Conservative Party. To my colleagues at Beeld, who wanted to come here, I am tempted to say to them "julle is goeie kamerade" (you are good comrades), but it would probably be the wrong thing to say to them. I started my career at the Burger in 1973. I was a member of the first editorial ...

CHAIRPERSON: Was it possible at that time to know the conflict that was going on between the Mbcoto and the comrades? Do you think he knew about this and they started to follow him?