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MR DE KOCK: Yes, there was a messenger from the Civics Association who was there and the comrades were also there and they indicated that we could bury him there if we wanted to, but that they would exhume his body and burn his body afterwards.

... the argument put forward on behalf of the victims that the acts were committed to further the applicants' criminal activities. The two deceased comrades may well have been involved for political reasons, but the probabilities weigh in favour of a finding that the applicants involvement was ...

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.

... I also don’t remember the date but it was on Monday. I went to Phalaborwa town. I was wearing a T-shirt which had names of Sisulu and his comrades. I went to a bank and I was going to a nearby shop and two White men came to me running. The other one grabbed me with my T-shirt and the ...

He was a member of the ANC, he was in the struggle together with the other comrades. They would go from town to town together with others. They would fight with the PAC people.

We had just bus loads of UDF activists and other anti-apartheid organisation activists had also returned from the funerals of Matthew Goniwe and his comrades in the Eastern Cape, and I think that we had come back with a sense of what the government was capable of and a sense of outrage that those ...

... of the important sites of the struggle. Objectively speaking, there is no shred of evidence that Phola was an informer, but the applicant and his comrades believed so. The existence of such belief has been corroborated by ...

... between yourself, as an activist and your community? People supported the youth very much, but were very afraid to be seen with other active comrades in the streets, because some of the communities felt that these people are radicals and some were worried about their own safety, if the ...

in governmental structures were the targets of hit squad actions launched by the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto weSizwe, Self Defence Units and militant comrades. ...

... the mother of the deceased has problems with are that (a) if her son was either an askari or a political troublemaker, why then was he given a comrades funeral by activists on his funeral, (b) if the applicants were convicted of kidnapping and not murder and now applies for amnesty for ...

... to the applicant this convinced him that he had no choice: either co-operate with the police and stay alive or be killed by them or your own ...

CHAIRPERSON: Were those two firearms that you had actually handed out to your two comrades, did they never actually come back into your possession physically?

... which materialised and escalated, arose from the applicant refusing to be recruited by the security police into their ranks and to betray his comrades in the African National ...

CHAIRPERSON: Sorry Mr Sithole. You mentioned that Mr Magwaza handed you this AK-47. Did you see any of your comrades, your compatriots, your IFP people having firearms?

into one of the neighbouring Bantustans. In the context, Councillors were seen as part o the discredited Apartheid System and the Applicant and his comrades were prepared to do anything to bring the system to its ...

that it is quite disturbing that the people or the perpetrators were collaborating with the people that we trusted, that is our neighbours or fellow Comrades. We do hope that even when you do get some evidence to the effect that these people that you know were involved in the deaths of your ...

Comrades and friends. Thank you very very much, this last period and the people who have come forward has been a very difficult time for all of you as you have been sitting here and listening, and I'm not just talking about the discomfort you're feeling standing at the back or sitting on the ...

that it is not between the ANC and the IFP. The pamphlets were actually bearing Cosatu logos, Communist Party logos, etc. and they were calling upon comrades to unite. That is when I started realising that this was actually between the IFP and the ANC as they had stated in the ...

There was a funeral in the location. It was one of the comrades who was shot and dead, his name was Thomas Segolo. So it was his funeral and it was on Friday. The situation in the location was not stable. There was a tense situation I would explain it that way. The youth was not stable ...

... were not supposed to be assaulted anymore because we did not commit a bigger offence. Stompie should be continually beaten because he sold out the comrades". Guybon started kicking Stompie, hitting him against the wall, and thereafter he ...