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MR CORNELIUS: Did you know it was a person who had turned and had turned to his previous military comrades? - to put it like that.

it may, Mr Mkhanela was again identified on the 16th March 1994 at the corner of Roets Drive and Moagi Street in Vosloorus by the applicants and his comrades when they were returning from a rally. It was then decided that they should kill Mr Mkhanela and then they devised a plan to detract the ...

MR LAMEY: Can you recall whether there was an interrogation with regard to the identities of these other comrades and with regard to the weapon caches?

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 ...

... a robber and said no, no, no, he was committing lots of bank robberies in order to keep the police busy so that they wouldn't chase political - his comrades, that was his contribution to the struggle. So the circumstances must be taken not in isolation, it's not only this but it's coupled with ...

... 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 ...

... 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?

thereafter. The comrades went to dig out our father's grave, which is still at NY5 here.

It is not clear what the plan referred to by the applicant, was when he arrived in Cape Town. He says he told his comrades what the mission was, but the details of this mission were not forthcoming on cross-examination.

... 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 ...

MR MAHLAKAONE: Yes I gave the comrades because I was the commander of that unit, I said to them the mission of this operation is not to harm anybody but if it happened that we meet with any resistance. Any way, there was no option, it was just to shoot back or to kill people who would be resisting ...

MR MASINA: In Swaziland I was assisting our other comrades who were supposed to come back to South Africa and those who were to leave South Africa to go to Angola and so forth.

MR CORNELIUS: And just for clarity for the Committee, I understand there has already been an application by your other comrades of the Task Force, but you were not subpoenaed to attend that.

MR DINGANE: The father of this white man we had captured, came and went to the milking place. As we were in the house, the other comrades that were there, they hit him with a garden spade. He overpowered them, and he escaped and he went to fetch the firearm and he came back again.

MR FRANCIS: Was that because someone in a much more senior position than Mr de Kock, had said that the role of Vlakplaas could go on or was it really because Mr de Kock and his comrades decided to continue with that role?

M TYOBEKA: Yes, there was. Even when I was still in hospital I heard about people that my son had been taken by one of the comrades to East London to go and lodge a complaint, going to the lawyer Siwisa.

"The prospects of talks certainly did not please Hani when, in an interview shortly after the unbanning of the ANC and SACP he cautioned that 'I think we must struggle very hard for our comrades not to feel that sitting down with the enemy is betrayal'. (reference no.56)".

MR LAX: I will just need to check if I can keep my flight then, rather than loose it. With comrades tomorrow, it is going to be impossible to get another flight earlier, so will you just get Molly please.

Mr Hlongwane gave me a handgrenade. He was armed with a 38mm revolver. We left from Chris Ngwenya's home. Some of our comrades were armed with pangas and grass cutters. We then proceeded to Mr Shongwe's home and Israel Hlongwane ordered us to surround the house. He went, kicked the door in ...