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... vigilante wit doek and police activity designed to flush out progressives as well as affect the state’s removals, led to open warfare between the comrades and ”fathers.” The result: Many homes burnt down, 50 000 homeless, countless deaths. Lenox Maphalane was on his way home to his mother ...

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.

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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

about the mysterious death of a dedicated young community worker in the province and we move down south with a special report on the forgotten young comrades of the Cape Flats. We start in a town and a township with a rich irony in their names; the town is called Pretty River or Mooirivier, 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. ...

... 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 ...

The unspoken found a faltering voice: necklacing, the shame of the comrades. Mbulelo Dulato was burned to death for breaking a consumer boycott in Colesburg in 1985. // Can you tell us what you saw what happened? // She was on her way to work, young men approached her. There were five. When they ...

... plains of the Cape Flats was no exception. Here too a breed of urban teenagers took on the state: innocent, brave, committed. Many of these young comrades who lived and fought revolution now face another challenge; they struggle to confront the future, armed only with a badge of honour of ...

In regard to the Heidelberg tavern attack, I was supposed to throw a hand grenade but I did not do so. At the time I did not think it wise to do so because I would almost certainly have killed my comrades as they were retreating from the attack on the tavern.

in their hands. // I was listening to the radio at six o’clock then we hear about this thing, that there was a bomb blast at Phoenix. I told to my comrades that they were giving me the instruction to come back to the country that Phoenix was not our part. We were not asked to concentrate on the ...

The morning, DiWitty came to me and said that his heart was very sore. The comrades, whom he had done everything for, given his house, now they were taking his wife.

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 ...

of baby Thabang, born in Swaziland in 1987. In October 1988 Ndwandwe was abducted from Manzini to Pietermaritzburg. The people who sold her out were comrades. Her abductors: four men in the South African Police. Their aim: to turn her into an askari through torture. Ndwandwe refused. They killed ...

This place where I’m standing is where all the tortures in ’86 and the year before ’86: ’85, the comrades and the Huhudi Civic Association, the Huhudi Youth Organisation in particular, were actually tortured. We were actually leaning against this tree and we were handcuffed, and we were ...

that I should be taken back to prison. Our decision was to start a hunger strike; we were 16 in all. We started on the 24th and after seven days the comrades requested us to withdraw the hunger strike. I was left on my own; I said no more turning back. In our cells we wrote on the walls ...

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 ...