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comradesExplanation ... 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 ... ... --- 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 ... ... had to exercise caution that those people on the left-hand side of the vehicle should not fire into the crates and thereby endangering their own comrades. I accordingly instructed him that he had to ensure that they had to know exactly in which direction to fire if ... ... testified that he is and was at the time of the incident, a member of the African National Congress, who was trained in Swaziland. He and his comrades Baba Majola and Mduduzi Xaba, now deceased, acted on the orders of their commander Ralph, who died in Swaziland. He is unable to remember ... ... of the Ndwedwe district must be killed. The targeted taxi owner was a Mr Gumede and the reason given for his elimination was the he transported comrades (supporters of the ANC). Mfayela pointed out the taxi owner’s house to the applicant and told him that after he killed him he must take the ... 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) ... 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 ... MR VISSER: And the persons amongst whom Mr Nceba and of course his comrades you regarded as trained terrorists? ... 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. 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 ... 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. ... a conflict between the township and the hostel, but clearly Chairperson, those IFP members who were attacked in the township, were attacked by the comrades, that is their evidence, and the SDU's, these names were used interchangeably and their stated objective was to fight against those SDU's. ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... MR GWALA: The reason why I went to collect them was because they were my comrades who would always assist me when we went out to fight the IFP. |