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MISS MKHIZE: Maybe if you try to remember the way in which you buried her, did the people, tell us about the people who came to the funeral. Was it attended by the fellow Comrades who were also involved in the march?

MR MAKOGA: There were other comrades who were arrested in the, in the township. So they were released and people were happy for their release.

... 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 RADEBE: They were the - Rangwane and Tabiso were the MK cadres and the others were just comrades from the ANC.

... separate cells, I was in the first cell, he was in the second cell and Chiba was at the end. We also subsequently learnt that there were two White comrades there, Leon Levy and Wolfie Kodesh(?) were in the White section. The way we were able to keep a bit sane was by - especially at night, was ...

The other comrades approached from the direction where his vehicle would drive off and the others approached from below the house. On hearing shots, some people whom we could not see, fired towards us. At the time I could not see Mr Mkhize because there were gunshots very close to where we were, ...

... town. Because informants were abundant in the government and the agents were constantly on the lookout for political groupings, our advice from comrades in Oudtshoorn was that we should not reflect any political affiliation in our youth organisation's constitution, but that such constitution ...

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.

MR BHANA: I would say I was in the third row and I was in front. We were holding hands as comrades and we were advancing.

... clutches of the security police and the hand of a child, the photo of a hand of a child, is shown to you and you are told that is your child, your comrades were running away from us and we killed your ...

CHAIRPERSON: Mamma, was it normal in the - or usual - in the townships that when they picked you up they would pick old people up with young comrades, and that they would force them to undress or they would be embarrassed in front of younger people?

... 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 ...

... the area and his vehicle used to travel back to Swanieville. The weapons and ammunition were handed to the ANCYL and were distributed amongst the comrades for use in defending the community of Swanieville against attacks. The vehicle of the deceased was set alight on the outskirts of ...

MR MOPEDI: Why was it necessary for you with your comrades, to attack or to target Mr Sithole?

... 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 ...

MR NCISHANE: A marshall would be responsible for checking the area and finding out what the situation looks like in the area. Thereafter we go back and report back to the other comrades.