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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 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 ...

After robbing Lesia of his vehicle Gqomfa and his comrades proceeded to the Mayaputhi – Sterkspruit Bridge. Mphahlele was in charge of the operation. He was armed with a .38 Spanish Revolver and they all took orders from him. The applicant was armed with a R5 automatic rifle, Ben a 9mm pistol ...

he was the one who, after everybody was convinced that the deceased was not at home, searched and found him hiding in a wardrobe; he then called his comrades and the assault started. With regard to the attempted murder, the applicant says he personally also stoned the ...

... them again the next day.  Moshoaliba told the deceased to return to the post office in Manzini where they were going to meet the so-called MK comrades.  The fact that these were askaris was also unknown to the trio.  Later Coetzee heard that the trio had been led into an ambush and were ...

Unfortunately, there were Comrades. The others who were in the struggle, the colleagues to Leo, there were others who were from abroad, those who were coming from Johannesburg they were turned back some of them. I can mention that everybody experienced a horrible experience because people were ...

... Station they were confronted by a member of the South African Police who demanded to search them. The Applicant shot the policeman and he and his comrades fled the scene. The policeman was injured in the shooting. The mine was never placed at ...

... he and commander Sipho Mahlangu threw hand grenades at the police. In the ensuing confusion he managed to get away but his commando and two other comrades died. He went to Johannesburg and from there later made his way to Ficksburg from where he crossed into Lesotho. ...

MR BLEKI: I tried to get in touch with the comrades after the incident giving them all the details what happened. All I had received was their support.

took him, went to a small hill where we spoke to him telling him about the Ngquza calamity. He said to us, Comrades, there is nothing I can do and you cannot fight whilst you are outside. You can fight a bit better when you are inside. What he was advising us to do is for us to elect our own ...

under arrest and they did not allow me to enter my house or to see my wife and family. They shoved me on to one of the caspars, together with other comrades of mine and took me to the police station at Graaf ...

... revolutionary climate and demoralise and confuse enemy forces, police and army personnel. Having said that, I present myself and my co-applicants, comrades, members of our unit, before yourselves to be considered for amnesty. I thank ...

MR PATEL: What motivated you and your fellow comrades to commit this offence?

MS NHLAYISI: So because Makasonke was the commander in your area, you said he took those arms, you suppose he gave them to your fellow comrades.

... be defined by the Conference decision and National Executive decisions of the ANC. In the context of that, as developments went on, individual comrades in the ANC would have different views about the way forward. Siphiwe Nyanda, who was my Deputy Commander, had the view which he developed ...

ADV BIZOS: Did he have a drinking problem even whilst you were comrades in arms in Koevoet?

MRS RADEBE: They were the - Rangwane and Tabiso were the MK cadres and the others were just comrades from the ANC.

... separate cells, I was in the first cell, he was in the second cell and Chiba was at the end. We also subsequently learnt that there were two White comrades there, Leon Levy and Wolfie Kodesh(?) were in the White section. The way we were able to keep a bit sane was by - especially at night, was ...

MR MAMASELA: I will say that's a blatant lie because most Askaris, they were used extensively to interrogate even their own comrades who were arrested to win their hearts. So I believe in a sense that we were the masters of interrogation, not the normal police interrogation of putting a sack and ...

The other comrades approached from the direction where his vehicle would drive off and the others approached from below the house. On hearing shots, some people whom we could not see, fired towards us. At the time I could not see Mr Mkhize because there were gunshots very close to where we were, ...