comrades

MR MBETHE: In that case Mr Nyalunga, did you, did any of you, yourself or the other two comrades that you've told us about, not foresee that some innocent people might be killed by the bomb?

MR BUHALI: It was later explained to me by some of our comrades as to what is the purpose exactly of the TRC and I received a letter from Cape Town that I should give further details.

if you were not part of the comrades culture.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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?

MR MAZIBUKO: Well, the submission covers the training part, you see. When we were trained, we were trained inside the country, we were trained by comrades from Johannes Nkosi Unit which was the Regional Command Structure of MK. Comrade Ernest Sigasa was the Commander if that particular Unit. It ...

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 ...

REVD FINCA: Mothers and comrades, we thank you for coming to share this with us. This event which I am sure will never be forgotten.

MS SOOKA: And why do you think the comrades wanted to - why do you think they burned him?

MR MADLALA: First of all they would come to school and shoot at us. There were other comrades who were shot at Wembezi High, that is a sign that these people were fighting and they died. After that Thulani was also killed, Thulani Mabasu. There are other people, many people who followed and ...

I'm also grateful, finally, to my comrades in arms, my brother Mol Sheik, my young brother Shamiem Sheik, and Sereesh Solne, for having endured and to each of them who have now triumphed, my brother Mol is now Ambassador to Nigeria, my younger brother Shamiem is the head of the South African ...

Firstly, I would like to seek forgiveness from my former comrades who sent me into this country to fight the regime, which I did not do.

... the Committee to the test which while being critical, is subjective. What did the applicants perceive. They perceived the killing of one of their comrades as a political deed. They had their reasons which were cogent and coherent as to why they saw taxi violence as political and when a ...

CHAIRPERSON: Now then, if it was fiction, whatever you said, how would that affect your friends and your comrades, they wouldn't be affected because it it all fiction?

... of human rights in terms of abduction, killings, maimings, and here we see that being the order of the day, whether Mbcoto was right, whether the comrades were right, but the overriding issue would have been respect and preservation of human life. So this is what I am saying, that could this ...

... spy and they also tried to sabotage me by taking photographs which they claimed they will use to blackmail me for accepting a bribe to implicate my ...

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.

"Insofar as it has been suggested that Simelane was murdered by us, it is untrue. It is my own conviction that she was killed by her comrades in MK. I have been informed that in the ANC's submission to the Truth Commission, they admitted that they killed some of their own members. Various ...

... 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 ...