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On the morning of the 22 May 1993 the applicant and his comrades proceeded to Ngcobo's place and entered his yard by crawling on their stomachs to avoid being detected by the occupants therein. They laid in wait for the occupants to come out of the house. A short while later a person came out ...

... was passed urging ministers to assist refugees and victims of repression by inter alia providing sanctuary or safe houses. I have assisted many comrades in finding safe houses and I cannot recall the specifics of each and every ...

MR SAMUEL: Now you described deaths of IFP people in the area, what did this do to you and other people psychologically, how did you feel when these deaths of your comrades occurred in the area?

MR MALAN: Was he one of the comrades, Dan Cele?

MR SHANGASE: I found Mrs Mbuyazi and she asked me as to how the situation was in Durban and how the comrades are in Durban, are they not¼(intervention)

MR DLAMINI: I have three children who were comrades. They were always on the alert because they were ANC members. At that time any ANC Comrade was to be killed.

... him with two firearms and a knife. He had no previous training in the use of firearms. Nzimande also gave him the authority to get two (2) other comrades to assist him to carry out the mission. Nzimande had identified the target. When he approached his accomplices they looked a bit ...

... was going to get into this sack and I said to them "No, you are not going to put me into any water, cold as it is", so they asked me "Who were your comrades?" There was a list of names and I was the first on this list followed by Tobula Busako and next was Lulamile Tonsi, there were others like, ...

... the patrons were. This the applicant did. He removed the pin; threw the hand grenade into the room and closed the door. The applicant and his comrades all fled to Chris Ngwenya’s home. They heard the explosion as they were fleeing. The next day they heard that some people had been ...

... who were working as agents of the Security Forces. This belief was common to many around me including me, my family, other ANC officials and many comrades loyal to me. My belief that the police agents who were within the party were responsible, was reinforced by what seemed to me at the time ...

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.

... he said no, I think I'll wait for a few friends of mine to arrive. Yes duly they all arrived. Both girls and boys came because they were all comrades and they prepared food before they could leave and after eating you know they decided to walk to Zone 7 because I was staying in HRV/820 ...

I had to go back to court. I was also charged together with some other comrades who were suspected of having burned the houses. However later they separated the case and there was a specific charge on me.

MR MOTHIBE: I went to Shell House together with some comrades, we were five in number. When we arrived at Shell House, we were supposed to inform Zakes, but we did not find him there. We found Jackie Selebe, now the Commissioner of the Police and we informed Jackie about the situation. Comrade ...

MR LAX: Did you report the matter to higher IFP authorities to say: "Here is an IFP man in our area, armed with G3's intended for Self Protection Units. He's running amok in the area. Please come and do something about it." Did you say anything to your fellow IFP comrades to do that?

... day there were threats which I received from the other organisation. They said I could be targeted. On the 30th April, the same year, there were comrades, a large group of them who came to my place. ...

DR RANDERA: I want to come back to this incident about the principal and the school. It seems like the youth or the comrades actually targeted schools at that time. Is that right?

Indeed I was taken to Mr Mbongwane's house. It was said to be his second wife, which I didn't know. Then I spent that night there. I had supper, comrades who knew me came in. Some gentlemen and some ladies who knew me came and we chatted. I had a nice sleep there.

The applicant and some of his comrades, who had formed themselves into a self-defence group, namely Mandla Khanyile, the leader of the group and Mabongi Nzimande decided that the deceased should be killed because of the loss of life and grief he was causing in the ANC community.

... police and call the police. We should tell them that there was a problem there. That was the problem because they did not want our children to be comrades and join the ...