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... DEN BERG: Matthews told me that when they got to Eendvogelpan's house, the person who sat in the front of the van, in the passenger seat, told his comrades "get your guns and be ready". It was also said to Matthews that if we land up in a road-block, not only us will get hurt, you will get hurt ...

The Applicant was the only one arrested on the 13th December 1991 and during 1992 he was convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Whilst in prison he learnt that his comrades had died.

As they were keeping us there they also arrested the AZATA comrades, it was Workshop and Khetla Mtembu. They were also kept in Benoni Prison and Amadakwati as well. We sat there and we continued with our hunger strike and they called Pete Jalewa who wanted to know why are we going on this hunger ...

... together with the people who’s relatives disappeared in exile. Whether they were killed by the enemy, whether they were killed by their own Comrades, whether they were killed in the camps or whichever way they were killed, the ANC said they would help us to try and answer questions of ...

in governmental structures were the targets of hit squad actions launched by the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto weSizwe, Self Defence Units and militant comrades. ...

MR MAPELA: Comrades said I must go to a doctor, Dr Mashlangeni, who is late. I went to him. They said that if I want to lay charges I would have to give Dr Mashlangeni's report and then go to the State Doctor. It is he who was going to confirm what Mashlangeni had diagnosed. I thought it was ...

... he testified against them and they were convicted and sentenced to terms of imprisonment.  The Applicant states that he testified against his comrades because he was ordered by members of the SBs to do so.  They recruited him to work for them.  At the time he knew that his evidence ...

one of the ANC members home. Therefore, after that our regiments were met that I should go to Chesterville. That is where I found Sibisi and other comrades. I stayed there. Later I left with some cadres, three of them, those whom I found at Chesterville. ...

MR MTHEMBU: Yes, I was afraid to mention names of my fellow comrades and even those who were working underground.

CHAIRPERSON: Mrs Mahlangu, I have a question to you to follow-up relating to the Putco bus. According to our research and some statements we have on that day, apparently, some 300 Putco buses were commandeered by the comrades to take them to the funeral of Jacob Skosana.

... came to me, Majonie came to me alone. He said to me your husband has been taken by the boys, by the youth. I asked him which boys and he said the comrades took him away. I asked him where he is. He said they took him, they went with him to the bush. I asked him what did you do? They said to ...

... duties by investigating these crimes and hence at that stage they were involved in the investigation of all crime, whether it was committed by the comrades or Piet Ntuli and Mbokoto. All crime was investigated by them. MOUTSE HEARING ...

CHAIRPERSON: Was it possible at that time to know the conflict that was going on between the Mbcoto and the comrades? Do you think he knew about this and they started to follow him?

... 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 ...

A meeting was held by ANC comrades to discuss the problem. The Applicant chaired the meeting and it was resolved that the deceased and his compatriots should be killed because they were making life unbearable for ANC supporters. They were also making it difficult for the Applicant and other ANC ...

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 ...

... and give it to the police. According to me that was very dangerous, because the end of it would be a conflict between you and your fellow comrades. Because they would even go to an extent of injuring you or at the end you would put people's lives in ...

was to embrace and bring into the ANC and into the struggle all those elements that were willing to participate inside of the struggle. We had also comrades like Akino Hein Grosskopf for instance, who was drawn into the operations. He carried out some of those operations. There were various ...

MS SOOKA: And after you buried Jimmy; at the funeral, did Jimmy have an activist funeral? Were you helped? Normally when an activist dies, in a community, then usually all the comrades would come to assist the family to bury. Did that happen with you as well?

... as a consequence of the strategy that had been adopted by the workers. Mantyi had defected to the IFP and was known to be informing on his old comrades, thus putting the lives of the latter in jeopardy. Applicant and Joseph established Mantyi's whereabouts and his movements, and shot and ...