comrades

... 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 ...

went there as a family. We were going to visit him as usual. Pres Mandela was also present on the day of the celebration and some of the other comrades were also there. When we went back home, he was about to be released, because out of the 15 years I think, he spent only three years. When his ...

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

... It was a boy's funeral, he was also involved in all this mess. I think that these people were young ANC members and when they went to bury their comrades, they got shot and some of them died as a result. They were being attacked during night vigils. That is where the police used to shoot at ...

belonged to the ANC or to any other political party or are we comrades but they found out that we're just ordinary people.

DR RANDERA: She wasn’t part of the Comrades, she wasn’t part of the UDF, she hadn’t been involved in burning houses, attacking people ?

... it was just hanging over together with a bullet. Fortunately it did not fall off, it just hung on my face. I tried to put my jawbone back. The comrades then realised that I had been injured. It was obvious. It was a distance of about ten metres, somebody else got shot and fell over. ...

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.

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

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

... of credibility, but I don't understand why somebody would say, 'well listen I think I went to a cafe, I took out a loaf of bread to go and feed the comrades who were starving in the bush. Some people think I stole that bread, but as far as I'm concerned I paid for that at the till but there's an ...

... --- It didn't take much time, it's just a few months and we quarrelled with the other SAP people, because we discovered that some of them were comrades and they also suspected that we were not just ordinary constables, but that we are under a certain mission(?). Therefore a conflict ...

... my own particular experience with having been a victim of the repressive system in the past, I know that there are very close family and friends, comrades, who even 20 odd years after a detention, and that detention may have been for a very short period of time, and may have involved some ...

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 ...

... hands of the security police and on occasions at the hands of the prosecutors and by his own feelings of guilt in being a State witness against his comrades and by reason of their associated fear of not being able to successfully merge with his community or the fear of death at their hands. Mr ...

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)

Then at the end of the vigil there was a service then also a vigil for the comrades and he came in, swollen as he was and he was asked, what is the problem Siphiwo and then he explained that he had been taken away and then blindfolded and his hands were manacled together with his feet and they ...

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?