comrades

... basis for the arrest of the victims and you had indicated that according to your source some of the, after Mr Reverend Mahamba was visited by these comrades and the rest of the people had conveyed those people to the scene of the attack. What was the source of information that you relied ...

... this particular operation. The one reason is that during my release or just after my release in 1986 from Robben Island, together with a number of comrades, we made attempts to open accounts at the Nedbank. Our attempts were turned down, our applications were turned down on the grounds of ...

MR RAMAILA: As I'm in prison the very prison I'm based in is maximum prison. Now there I had never had an opportunity to meet with other comrades from Daveton, seeing as I'm from Daveton, that they could now fulfil every detail with regards to the membership.

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 ...

"Insofar as it was suggested that Mr X said that Simelane was murdered by us, it is untrue. It is my conviction that she was killed by her own MK comrades. And I am informed that in the ANC's submission to the TRC, they admitted that they had killed some of their own members. Several murders and ...

ADV PRIOR: Well certainly Dolo on the evidence occupies a far stronger position and a far more responsible position than his comrades, I mean he was in charge of the operation. He could tell them where to go, he could tell them to withdraw or not, to shoot or not. And in fact because we don't ...

... just to be more direct about that question I will put it the way I understood it because I was the convenor of the Committee, I brought the comrades here into this issue and I believed we had a crisis in our hands and it needed a particular group of people. And as you can see from their ...

... 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 ...

Applicant knew Benjamin Langa as a comrade and as a political activist. He also knew where he lived. Xulu and Payi advised, the applicant that Benjamin Langa had been selling out comrades.

MR BOOYENS: Were you aware of any, did your askaris still identify people, former cadres or former comrades of theirs and were people still arrested coming into the country illegally?

MR VISSER: Reconnaissance, yes, ... done and Nceba and his comrades were obviously keen, as Mr Olifant said ...(intervention)

... I was asking to one of them who were there, while I was asking the political organisations, one of them said that I should go and apologise to the comrades - those I didn't give the petrol and I said that I was not going to do that and he said to me a car can hit a person while he is on a ...

MR VISSER: Then he has submitted a further document to this Committee in which he implicated you in the alleged assault and torture of comrades in Bloemfontein at Fountain Street building in 1986 and stated that you and Colonel Stevenson had organised the members of the security branch into groups ...

... it is clear that the applicant knew exactly what he was doing, was associated with a particular political objective. The applicant knew that his comrades were in a political mission and therefore he saw the need to assist them in escaping after the police officer in question was shot at. Mr ...

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 ...

... with Kelly and Kelly had a blue eye and he actually blocked the fist from Mrs Mandela and then he was taken, both hands of Kelly were held by other comrades so that he couldn't block the fist from Mrs Mandela. Thank ...

MR TOKA: Just for the clarity of this Commission, I think on the first incident, he's referring to one of my comrades, Peter Maluleke, who was the actual person who was kidnapped during the day after leaving his house and when they kidnapped Peter Maluleke they were looking for this Bomber, that's ...

... chap Holtzhausen and a Willie Nortje, were moved to Denmark where they were kept for a considerable period of time in protection from their own comrades, as he was one of the chief witnesses accompanied by Willie Nortje, against Eugene de Kock in the exposure of the atrocities committed by ...

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 comrades took us and they tried to remove the pellets, it is only three pellets now that are embedded in my body and after some time that affected me because I normally have sharp pains, I feel dizzy some times.