comrades

... in a hood, not a hood but a blanket, a prison blanket over his head and it had eye holes. I immediately recognised who he was. It was one of our comrades, the one who was missing all along, because we didn't know where he was. Subsequently we came to know he was arrested. His name was Ian ...

... and that is why most members of the IFP don't like to co-operate with the TRC. That's why my brothers - I will call them my brothers, they are my comrades, that is why today they are denying everything, because they are scared they may be arrested. But I think if they were told that they still ...

... day they took me by car to Durban. In Durban one of the ANC workers took me to Chesterville one house. That is where I stayed with some other comrades and Sipho Motaung arrived at that particular place and we were taken. We were ten in number and three men who were ANC members came to take ...

MS MKHIZE: At the time when you buried your son, the people who came to comfort you, were they comrades?

... thanked me. I then stayed at home. At night while I was sleeping his family members came from Cradock. They said that they heard that there were Comrades who were killed. I was not sure whether Makhaya was one of these people, because I was not sure of what I heard. We saw this incident in ...

MR MOPEDI: Why was it necessary for you with your comrades, to attack or to target Mr Sithole?

during the morning of 29 June 1993 three girls reported to him that they were raped and gave the names of the perpetrators. He summoned some of his comrades and they went to seek the persons being accused. They found some of the perpetrators and took them to the sports-ground where the girls and ...

... the previous night of the 27th of June 1985 at about 9 pm. You can imagine the shock, and I shivered to think what might have happened to these ...

... son Jackie. Since then till I was detained on the 5th of May in 1986 and released in August 1989 I stayed in detention over that period with many comrades including Jerry Morakela who stays in Hospital ...

MS MKHIZE: It's made here, it's like you are in search for more information about people who lived closely to Vuyani. Did you ever hear from any of his fellow comrades in Lesotho after his funeral?

The Applicant was the only one arrested on the 13th December 1991 and during 1992 he was convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Whilst in prison he learnt that his comrades had died.

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.

... 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 DE KOCK: Yes, there was a messenger from the Civics Association who was there and the comrades were also there and they indicated that we could bury him there if we wanted to, but that they would exhume his body and burn his body afterwards.

MR PUNGULA: Yes, among other things, and the rest that was actually explained by my comrades, that she has actually done other evil things and actually not talking good about the ANC.

MR RICHARD: I did contemplate and think about the situation. The applicant was then a soldier put to guard the prisoners, however his comrades who he describes as many in number and out of control, interfere with the situation ...(intervention)

MR CORNELIUS: He was then placed under arrest and your other comrades or colleagues took him to John Vorster Square.

MR JONES: Some of these visits did happen. If I can elaborate, at the time there were a number of problems around leadership individuals in the Black Peoples' Convention, these were friends of ours, comrades of ours.

MR VEVEZA: I left Mabuti Biko in the township. I went to town together with other comrades, Mzuamadoda Yengeni and Zukile Biko.

... the argument put forward on behalf of the victims that the acts were committed to further the applicants' criminal activities. The two deceased comrades may well have been involved for political reasons, but the probabilities weigh in favour of a finding that the applicants involvement was ...