comrades

MRS BALOYI: Stanley was not a thief, he was a Comrade and they did arrest him at once and send him to jail. Whilst we were still wondering why he told us that he was bailed out by the Comrades and he had been discharged. He did not tell us anything about his whereabouts.

MS THUNYISWA: We were the comrades and we were school children by that time. We were trying to attend Steve Biko's funeral who passed away on the 13th of September. On the 17th we planned to go to Queenstown, where one of my teachers told us there was a roadblock held at Mafikeng, so we must use ...

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 ...

MR DLONGWANE: Actually this developed after I testified against Zola Mtatsi and including the other comrades in court.

We hear what you say Mr Kratshi and we will see what can be done to council you in the coming future. We do believe that there are people that support you, comrades of your father’s and in your community who will help you if you reach out a hand to them - their hands are there ready to help you.

... police were after him. He could not go to town, they would chase him. So, we ultimately fled to PE with some other pupils to go and join their Comrades in PE. He was shot there while he was setting a bakery delivery vehicle ...

CHAIRPERSON: When people were arrested in Bedford, when you were arrested, sorry, in Bedford were there any Comrades who were arrested?

there were many of us. I know the people who were leading me. When you joined the organisation you were not interested in knowing the names of the Comrades, but you just wanted to join the organisation so that we can get a membership card, but we use to hide these membership cards, but what ...

... to him by Mpathi Goniwe, the MK commander in Mdantsane to whom the Applicant was accountable. About two (2) weeks before, the Applicant and his comrades, namely Bongani, Lamla Manyadu and Dukumani Bobby had been given an order by Goniwe that members of the Ciskei Police Force and the Defence ...

... Ngqulunga were ambushed by members of a liberation movement. The attackers were wearing balaclavas to hide their identity. Ngqulunga called them comrades and pleaded with them to spare his ...

... Ncube: he said upon his return home, he had to report to his local political structures so that, in case he was killed by the vigilantes, his comrades would be able to know and bury him. The deceased and the other two victims were members of the vigilante group. Mr Ndzeku, presently the ...

... carry that for the rest of our lives, but what I will remember is the participation in the struggle with normal, fallible people who were wonderful ...

... lost, lives were already lost, so no matter how much the deceased would have pleaded for the life of Stoffel, people who had lost their fellow comrades were not going to release him so willingly. ...

Mr Ntuli, can you briefly explain to the Committee the political climate in which this incident occurred, with specific reference to the number of your comrades who were being killed at that time.

... shack. At approximately 2pm, when school came out, Mbueseli came to me, he is currently serving a jail sentence, and they came in, he and other comrades, and they asked to see Lulama, and I said to them that Lulama lives at Kwana and I have got a problem that you should come and look for him ...

MRS LERUTLA: He was one of the Comrades.

if you were not part of the comrades culture.

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.

I was there for fourteen days, one week in the police station and one week there in the jail. After a while comrades came to pay bail for R1,000-00 and I went home. Two days there after Jipie Kalolo took me and [indistinct] with another doctor - to another doctor who examined and helped me and ...