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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?

... day there were threats which I received from the other organisation. They said I could be targeted. On the 30th April, the same year, there were comrades, a large group of them who came to my place. ...

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 ...

DR RANDERA: I want to come back to this incident about the principal and the school. It seems like the youth or the comrades actually targeted schools at that time. Is that right?

Indeed I was taken to Mr Mbongwane's house. It was said to be his second wife, which I didn't know. Then I spent that night there. I had supper, comrades who knew me came in. Some gentlemen and some ladies who knew me came and we chatted. I had a nice sleep there.

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 SAMUEL: Now you described deaths of IFP people in the area, what did this do to you and other people psychologically, how did you feel when these deaths of your comrades occurred in the area?

... 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 ...

... police and call the police. We should tell them that there was a problem there. That was the problem because they did not want our children to be comrades and join the ...

... came to me, Majonie came to me alone. He said to me your husband has been taken by the boys, by the youth. I asked him which boys and he said the comrades took him away. I asked him where he is. He said they took him, they went with him to the bush. I asked him what did you do? They said to ...

The applicant and some of his comrades, who had formed themselves into a self-defence group, namely Mandla Khanyile, the leader of the group and Mabongi Nzimande decided that the deceased should be killed because of the loss of life and grief he was causing in the ANC community.

On the morning of the 22 May 1993 the applicant and his comrades proceeded to Ngcobo's place and entered his yard by crawling on their stomachs to avoid being detected by the occupants therein. They laid in wait for the occupants to come out of the house. A short while later a person came out ...

... train Special Constables who would be trained and sent back into their community to act as a physical force or wedge against the activities of the comrades of the UDF. These Special Constables were attached to the riot units in the National Joint Management System. The police force was ...

often based within the community itself. Yesterday, when we were in Ermelo, we could see that in the township of Wesselton how a community divided, Comrades on the one side and Black Cats on the other side. (tape ...

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. ...

"We had absolute trust in Joe (Joseph Nkuna) whom we knew and trusted as our commander in the MK. As our Commander and most trusted person we believed him and more so, we did not have contact with any other comrades outside as we were lying low and our only contact was Mr Nkuna."