comrades

... agenda, namely an interest to rob money in going to Mr de Villier's farm and that, despite any political objective he may have shared with his comrades, he had gone there in an attempt to obtain more than just arms and that his primary aim was to enrich ...

MR SOKO: Some of the comrades were making utterances that they were going to kill him. I think I was the one who assaulted him.

... of the attacks in 1988 it's been given here as evidence that there was turmoil in Mamelodi, Atteridgeville, there were soldiers in the township and comrades were like operating and involved in a lot of activities and you were a trained MK member and you were still not involved in any activities ...

MR SCHOON: No Chairperson, I simply knew that they were comrades.

ADV BOOYENS: Then it deals with who were his political comrades, is that correct?

MR MATJILA: They said they don't want people, they wanted only family members to attend the night vigils not the community members. We forced matters because Jingles was one of our comrades.

MR SIBEKO: And you, with your comrades, got that information from Lucky Mampuru, who happened to have a co-operation or a working relationship with the members of the community of Everest, is that what you say?

... and brought him to the place where Maake and Makupe were being held. he was similarly interrogated but for a much longer time than his other two comrades allegedly because he was very brave and withstood torture more than his other colleagues. ...

CHAIRPERSON: But these are the people who were your comrades for almost a year, for more than a year, you worked together closely as a unit, as an assault unit of APLA?

"He was not to recruit anybody pertinently. He came to me and said that he had been approached by the comrades element, the activists, to assist them with training abroad."

MR NCISHANE: A marshall would be responsible for checking the area and finding out what the situation looks like in the area. Thereafter we go back and report back to the other comrades.

"We were youths who were calling themselves comrades although we were not affiliated to any political party. Our main aim was to discipline people who were committing crimes".

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 ...

MR NDLAZI: I was not there. I was told that they were actually remembering their comrades who died before on that day. They were sort of remembering them.

REVD XUNDU: Didn't you get any information from the comrades and his friends?

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.

... to prevent the abuse of the young. In so doing we may begin to redefine what it means to be a child in South Africa and open city gates to their comrades who then took the city. This tale from antiquity has some similarities with our experiences. ...

According to the Applicant, the deceased participated in the killing of ANC comrades and he was part of the group that killed the former SDU commander, George Skarmora Machel.  The deceased was accordingly a political opponent of the ANC in the township at the time.

They left and approximately an hour or two later went back and found him. They used pseudo names and posed as comrades who had been sent to collect him to transport him to exile where he would undergo military training. He agreed to accompany them.

4. A witness of the Douglas Commission alleges a mutiny in 1977, which was suppressed by Mr Ronnie Kasrils "by giving orders to an East German trained platoon to lock the comrades up". Can problematic events involving dissatisfaction of cadres in 1977 be described? How was the matter dealt with?