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EXAMINATION BY MR NYAWUZA: Thank you Mr Chairman. Mr Sibanyoni, two of your comrades have already testified relating to an incident that happened on the 31st of July 1990.

MR RAMAILA: As I'm in prison the very prison I'm based in is maximum prison. Now there I had never had an opportunity to meet with other comrades from Daveton, seeing as I'm from Daveton, that they could now fulfil every detail with regards to the membership.

I also heard Comrades who were also with me, but they were arrested after me. They were in a place called [indistinct] it’s a place in a court where the jail people were use to be kept the prisioners were used to be kept when they are going to stand against. He said your co-accused are also in ...

... of the leadership organisation and we should be treated in the way that he treated us. I am positive that it is, it was not only myself, but other Comrades as well. Secondly, I think the relationship between doctors and security forces at the time should be investigated, because our ...

MR MAHUMAPELO: I wouldn't explain further, because other comrades have explained. We had water shortage and we were fetching water from the Indian centre and other areas nearby in our area.

... this particular operation. The one reason is that during my release or just after my release in 1986 from Robben Island, together with a number of comrades, we made attempts to open accounts at the Nedbank. Our attempts were turned down, our applications were turned down on the grounds of ...

... basis for the arrest of the victims and you had indicated that according to your source some of the, after Mr Reverend Mahamba was visited by these comrades and the rest of the people had conveyed those people to the scene of the attack. What was the source of information that you relied ...

... it is that they are saying. They say a corpse was discovered in Britz and it is not known who the killer, the marauders were. We cried and some Comrades came in to ask what has happened. We have seen on the TV what has happened. ...

of the young people to these councils, because you say that those who came to your house singing songs, were youth? In your statement you say, young comrades. Do you have any idea of how they felt about these councils that you sat on and that was at the chief's ...

... the air whilst we were shooting. That is the scene imprinted in my memory. I saw some of the people falling, and they were dragged along by their comrades, or picked up by the others. We followed them, we ran after them, but Richard called us back and said that the flares were becoming ...

Probably in the beginning of 1994, Applicant and other comrades arranged with one Vincent, an arms dealer to buy two Bazooka rocket launchers and 16 rockets.  He threatened to sell them to the IFP should they not wish to buy same.  They received the weapons, undertaking to pay at a later ...

... They stop and I started running again. And we ran until we entered a farm, a white man's farm. When we arrived there Sdiga was stabbed by the comrades and he had been stitched on his stomach. As we were running and then I shot the last one. The police in Davel has already noticed this and ...

MRS NKUEMYANE: It was a mass funeral and the Comrades came to my house and said to me they want me to join with the

MR MASHIANI: No but we were just like comrades who came together to protect the community.

... in a hood, not a hood but a blanket, a prison blanket over his head and it had eye holes. I immediately recognised who he was. It was one of our comrades, the one who was missing all along, because we didn't know where he was. Subsequently we came to know he was arrested. His name was Ian ...

... and that is why most members of the IFP don't like to co-operate with the TRC. That's why my brothers - I will call them my brothers, they are my comrades, that is why today they are denying everything, because they are scared they may be arrested. But I think if they were told that they still ...

... day they took me by car to Durban. In Durban one of the ANC workers took me to Chesterville one house. That is where I stayed with some other comrades and Sipho Motaung arrived at that particular place and we were taken. We were ten in number and three men who were ANC members came to take ...

MS MKHIZE: At the time when you buried your son, the people who came to comfort you, were they comrades?

MR NYOKA: And how would you describe your relations with Mr du Plessis at the time? Were you comrades, if you can pardon me using that term, were you comradely in your relations? Or let me put it in a manner that you will understand, were you friendly?

... thanked me. I then stayed at home. At night while I was sleeping his family members came from Cradock. They said that they heard that there were Comrades who were killed. I was not sure whether Makhaya was one of these people, because I was not sure of what I heard. We saw this incident in ...