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Mrs. Mandela said I should take the minibus and go fetch those boys from the Methodist centre and I went to Winnie to find out if she had really said that. And I took the bus, after she said yes, with the other comrades.

Steve Nkwenya, an attorney at the time, represented many members of the then Wesselton Action Committee and so-called comrades who were defending their community.

... the young medical student was found dead in his cell. The news of Biko’s death in detention shocked the world. Some of his closest friends and comrades remembered their deep sense of loss when they found out that he’d died in ...

But once the comrades left the relative safety of the hills the realities of the deepening political conflict of the time closed in around them. Kabasa’s terror often came in the dark. // Round about half past two in the morning we were awaken by a huge sound, a huge bang, and when I woke up with ...

and by 1983 he was head of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Natal underground machinery and a senior official of the Communist Party. In 1988 one of his senior comrades confessed to having been a spy. TZ was detained by ANC security or Mbokodo, of which he was a senior officer. There was no trial. He became ...

bullets and they shot me in the left hand with two bullets and on the right hand they shot me with three bullets. I fell on the ground and my fellow comrades came to pick me up. I was not able to talk or do anything. They took me to the ...

The comrades retaliated and KwaNdebele burned. Chris van Niekerk was then in charge of the KwaNdebele police. He was opposed to independence and to the KwaNdebele government’s use of Mbokodo to terrorise the local people. // The KwaNdebele government was actually my boss so I had to kind of obey ...

Joyce Seipei, for the first time publicly spoke of her hurt, grief and bitterness. At the time of Stompie’s death, she was gagged and denounced by comrades who towed the line that Stompie was not really dead. Joyce Seipei buried her son on February 25 1989, a day after Winnie Mandela told the ...

... lifted a cloud of suspicion from a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe who was blamed by his community and his colleagues for the deaths of three of his comrades. ...

... it and let the horse into the city walls. Once inside, Greek warriors climbed out of the belly of the horse and opened the city gates to their comrades, who then destroyed Troy. This is why the incident in October 1985 in Athlone was called the Trojan Horse ...

I’m now going to sing you a poem which was written by one of our comrades and a fellow writer, a Congress of South African writer also, he’s name is Keorapetse Willy Kgositsile and his song is called ”Red Song.”

... on the right hand side of the road in that valley called Ntshongozima. And a large number of youth there joined the UDF and became Amaqabane, comrades. In fact, even a lot of the adults joined the UDF. About September, I think it was about October, the 9th of October Dave Ntombela who is ...

... I think they were drinking as I understood it, chatting over some beers. And he told them, but you guys who done so much harm to your fellow comrades we are getting back to South Africa not very long and some of you are going to have to answer to that. One guy, Mike, just stood up and ...

Fifty percent of the comrades, believe you me, they believe that PW Botha should go to jail. They say that if PW is young enough to take a wife, he’s young enough to go to jail. This is their point of view and they say that ‘hy is te oud vir die TRC maar hy’s nie te oud om ‘n jong vrou te ...

On that night we came from the new cross road, I was armed with a R4 rifle, other comrades were armed with shotguns and guns, and then we get to this stop, we see there’s no vans here. We’re sure that the van must stop at this stop, the nice place to deploy, is that place. So we move from this ...

... that beats. With strong words I must say I do not agree with the death sentence. It can be any person… I mean this not only for the ANC and for comrades. It can be an AWB man who does something like go and shoot people like Barend Strydom did or any other person. Because I speak from ...

Solomon Mahlangu was one of the many UDF comrades who got a taste of Mbokodo’s venom. He too was taken to the Siyabuswa hall and tortured. // At about 6 pm. They came at the chief minister of that time, mister SS Skosana. Then he asked me several questions then he said to me. ”Mister Mahlangu ...

With this alleged incriminating receipt Zenzile’s life was now in danger from his own comrades. He dropped out of sight, but his political career had ended and with it his good reputation as an activist.

They shot my son. They were leading a funeral of one of their comrades. He was walking in front leading the procession and that is when they shot him and still repeated him twice. When we heard the shots we ran away. I then decided to come home after all that confusion. When I got here they told me ...

was the only one of her family who was politically involved. Today she is sad rather than bitter that her sister and mother died at the hands of her comrades. She believes the perpetrators were ill-disciplined youths who regarded anyone who did not toe the line as the enemy. // That time there was ...