comrades

CHAIRPERSON: Now how did you establish that he had been killed by your comrades?

MR NTSHETHA: He was head of the comrades, because when there was a shortage of firearms, he had a way of distributing these as well as ammunition. We were in the position to gather funds and I would take the money to Osindisweni to go and fetch these. I would go and fetch these firearms, using ...

MS MTANGA: Did you associate with any people who were then regarded as comrades, that is in 1989?

REVD FINCA: Mothers and comrades, we thank you for coming to share this with us. This event which I am sure will never be forgotten.

... to prevent the abuse of the young. In so doing we may begin to redefine what it means to be a child in South Africa and open city gates to their comrades who then took the city. This tale from antiquity has some similarities with our experiences. ...

MR NCISHANE: A marshall would be responsible for checking the area and finding out what the situation looks like in the area. Thereafter we go back and report back to the other comrades.

... in Wentworth and generally in South Africa were suffering. There was either no education or very poor education, jobs were scarce. Many of the comrades in my area who suffered as I did, shared the same political perception and we generally met in Ogal Road on numerous occasions and held ...

MR NDLAZI: I was not there. I was told that they were actually remembering their comrades who died before on that day. They were sort of remembering them.

REVD XUNDU: Didn't you get any information from the comrades and his friends?

MR MASHUMI: Here in PE there was a mayor in our area, his name was Qnala, his house was destroyed together with the other one of the police and then some comrades were identified and I was - some of us were pointed out and then I ran away because I was scared.

... in a van and we wanted to run away. He stopped us. He said you must tell my family at Makwassie that April has died and he has been killed by the ...

MS SOOKA: And after you buried Jimmy; at the funeral, did Jimmy have an activist funeral? Were you helped? Normally when an activist dies, in a community, then usually all the comrades would come to assist the family to bury. Did that happen with you as well?

MR MATJILA: They said they don't want people, they wanted only family members to attend the night vigils not the community members. We forced matters because Jingles was one of our comrades.

ADV BOOYENS: Then it deals with who were his political comrades, is that correct?

MR MATHEBE: My task was to drive like they already explained. That we identified that place at the T-junction as the ambush spot, so I dropped the comrades there and I went with the car and waited for them at a distance, not far away from that spot and then after that operation, I came back and ...

MR ALLI: Is that as far as your authority went, that you could tell certain of the comrades that you would remain behind while the rest of us go ahead, is that all you could do?

On the second or the third day he explained to me that he was here, he came to see me on a purpose, he wanted to send me out with two or three comrades to go and attack the farmers and he said my Task Force - I should choose two Africans from the Task Force who would go with me to attack. I ...

order to these four comrades they attack Mr Fourie's farm?

MR NYOKA: And how would you describe your relations with Mr du Plessis at the time? Were you comrades, if you can pardon me using that term, were you comradely in your relations? Or let me put it in a manner that you will understand, were you friendly?

When I arrived at home, there were comrades there trying to comfort my mother. We tried to find out what happened to him as he was taken by the police, we couldn't find anything.