comrades

MR MAHLAKAONE: Yes I gave the comrades because I was the commander of that unit, I said to them the mission of this operation is not to harm anybody but if it happened that we meet with any resistance. Any way, there was no option, it was just to shoot back or to kill people who would be resisting ...

... the mother of the deceased has problems with are that (a) if her son was either an askari or a political troublemaker, why then was he given a comrades funeral by activists on his funeral, (b) if the applicants were convicted of kidnapping and not murder and now applies for amnesty for ...

MR MOGANO: Yes, he was the leader of the comrades.

DR BORAINE: Okay, and he wasn't taken back with his comrades, he wasn't buried, nobody seems to ...(intervention)

MR RADEBE: I'm speaking about lawyers who were helping the comrades who did not have money, to have legal representatives.

MR LAMEY: Can you recall whether there was an interrogation with regard to the identities of these other comrades and with regard to the weapon caches?

"The prospects of talks certainly did not please Hani when, in an interview shortly after the unbanning of the ANC and SACP he cautioned that 'I think we must struggle very hard for our comrades not to feel that sitting down with the enemy is betrayal'. (reference no.56)".

... a robber and said no, no, no, he was committing lots of bank robberies in order to keep the police busy so that they wouldn't chase political - his comrades, that was his contribution to the struggle. So the circumstances must be taken not in isolation, it's not only this but it's coupled with ...

MR MNGUNI: Those are Comrades I’m referring to who were present at the time.

... time. When we arrived there we joined the toy-toy, from the new location to the old location. People were singing freedom songs, we joined the Comrades. We sang around the old location chanting freedom ...

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 ...

that it is not between the ANC and the IFP. The pamphlets were actually bearing Cosatu logos, Communist Party logos, etc. and they were calling upon comrades to unite. That is when I started realising that this was actually between the IFP and the ANC as they had stated in the ...

MR CORNELIUS: Did you know it was a person who had turned and had turned to his previous military comrades? - to put it like that.

After considering the matter, the Committee is satisfied that the applicant and his comrades acted with a political objective as required in the Act. He further appears to have given a full disclosure and has complied with the formal requirements of the Act. He is therefore GRANTED amnesty for ...

MR VISSER: And the persons amongst whom Mr Nceba and of course his comrades you regarded as trained terrorists?

CHAIRPERSON: You then deal with the fact that there were a number of askaris living on the farm, most of them were former members of the ANC and PAC, who had been trained overseas and had then joined you to act against their former comrades.

... they arrived - after their arrival, there’s an area called Gigi, there is nothing. On their arrival I was actually showing them the area where the comrades are, and they actually saw then singing and dancing, and what so ever and Mudla Induna and them. And Jabulani Makateni was there. But when ...

MR MBUTHO: If I didn't have bullets or ammunition, I would actually go to other comrades and ask for help.

... steps. We went to make a statement at Khosa House, we made a statement there. We met Mr Chris Naidoo. I don't remember the date. We took all the comrades to that place, the witnesses who were there were five, whom I met with to Johannesburg. They were taken to the doctor. I don't know what ...

REV MOKWENA: They were Comrades at that time, but I do not know which particular structure that he belonged to.