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comradesExplanation 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 ... MS FALATI: The culture of the comrades, of (...indistinct) so that anybody who wants to come here is (...indistinct) before. ... 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. 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. 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 ... ... Four wanted training in order to kill Warrant Officer Nkosi and Mr Musi testified that he requested Mfalapitsa to organise for them, him and his comrades, to go into exile and again the other aspect which really doesn't form common cause is the question of the existence of a sketch. Musi ... He said that not one of his comrades from Botswana had come to him at any time, since the explosion to surmise that perhaps their letter had been intercepted and used to convey the bomb. Let me concede Mr Chairman, at the outset, that there is of course another possibility that if anybody did ... 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? MR RADEBE: I'm speaking about lawyers who were helping the comrades who did not have money, to have legal representatives. MR MOGANO: Yes, he was the leader of the comrades. CHAIRPERSON: Did you not find out from your comrades what this was all about, what is this Kangaroo Court that the newspapers are referring to? ... Mr Snoek, its really very simple. You had to operate according to orders. You got specific orders. What would happen to you? What would your Comrades do to you? What would your Commanders do to you, if you did other things beside what you had been ordered to do? That’s really the question. ... ... --- 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 ... belonged to the ANC or to any other political party or are we comrades but they found out that we're just ordinary people. ... 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 ... ... clothed in a political blanket to enhance his chances to obtain amnesty but even if he had a political motive his actions and the actions of his comrades under his control were clearly disproportionate to his political objective of stealing a weapon. ... What happened is that before the Wesselsbron attack, my comrades, that is Ryber, who is Bhani, arrived, as I was expecting him from Umtata. When he arrived, I took him from Welkom to Wesselsbron at Mnyagene Township. Mnyagene Township I sought accommodation for him and then he found that ... ... efforts were made to turn him and it might well be that under pressure, he said "I would become an informer" and then promptly went back to his comrades and told them what was ... |