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Comrades and friends. Thank you very very much, this last period and the people who have come forward has been a very difficult time for all of you as you have been sitting here and listening, and I'm not just talking about the discomfort you're feeling standing at the back or sitting on the ...

... five she came back from the prayer meeting. She went into the bedroom to undress, her last borne came in by the name Nobolelo to tell her that the Comrades were going to come and they were burning where they were. ...

was to embrace and bring into the ANC and into the struggle all those elements that were willing to participate inside of the struggle. We had also comrades like Akino Hein Grosskopf for instance, who was drawn into the operations. He carried out some of those operations. There were various ...

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.

... Tim Williams since was a member of Intelligence, he immediately realised that, but who are those people looking for me, I have my codename from my comrades. And that partiuclar night he never ...

... MHLONGO: Yes, I am serious because I know very well that bit by bit our number would increase as I have said that we were busy organising the other comrades under the PAC banner, trying to show them the way, trying to explain our objectives to them. We had support and I knew that the number ...

MR CORNELIUS: And just for clarity for the Committee, I understand there has already been an application by your other comrades of the Task Force, but you were not subpoenaed to attend that.

... were not supposed to be assaulted anymore because we did not commit a bigger offence. Stompie should be continually beaten because he sold out the comrades". Guybon started kicking Stompie, hitting him against the wall, and thereafter he ...

that it is quite disturbing that the people or the perpetrators were collaborating with the people that we trusted, that is our neighbours or fellow Comrades. We do hope that even when you do get some evidence to the effect that these people that you know were involved in the deaths of your ...

... of human rights in terms of abduction, killings, maimings, and here we see that being the order of the day, whether Mbcoto was right, whether the comrades were right, but the overriding issue would have been respect and preservation of human life. So this is what I am saying, that could this ...

... spy and they also tried to sabotage me by taking photographs which they claimed they will use to blackmail me for accepting a bribe to implicate my ...

My brother's friends, the other Comrades, came the next morning and the police came. They started chasing those friends outside our yard and they started beating those boys with their guns and they were badly injured. They took some to the hospital. On the day of the night vigil the police came ...

in governmental structures were the targets of hit squad actions launched by the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto weSizwe, Self Defence Units and militant comrades. ...

... between yourself, as an activist and your community? People supported the youth very much, but were very afraid to be seen with other active comrades in the streets, because some of the communities felt that these people are radicals and some were worried about their own safety, if the ...

CHAIRPERSON: Now then, if it was fiction, whatever you said, how would that affect your friends and your comrades, they wouldn't be affected because it it all fiction?

... the Committee to the test which while being critical, is subjective. What did the applicants perceive. They perceived the killing of one of their comrades as a political deed. They had their reasons which were cogent and coherent as to why they saw taxi violence as political and when a ...

... to the applicant this convinced him that he had no choice: either co-operate with the police and stay alive or be killed by them or your own ...

into one of the neighbouring Bantustans. In the context, Councillors were seen as part o the discredited Apartheid System and the Applicant and his comrades were prepared to do anything to bring the system to its ...

... 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 ...