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comradesExplanation REVD XUNDU: And there was a quarrel between himself and you said in your statement, between himself and comrades. What was the cause of this? MR PRIOR: And did any of your comrades further up towards the bridge, did they also fire at this vehicle? MR KOTA: I think she died five days after that. It was after comrades went to visit her and members of the organisation. ... have victims, people who died in the struggle and eventual reconciliation can only come about if these people are also honoured together with the comrades who were honoured by means of a play ... Policemen in the building returned fire. The 1st Applicant and his two comrades then ran to the vehicle in which the 3rd Applicant was waiting for them. They got to the vehicle without incident and drove away. ... because I was a student at that time and I was their informer and I was exposed as an informer and I could not stay in the areas where my fellow comrades would be aware of. The alternative was for them to hide me there at Mr Venter's house and I could understand their reason because I was ... MR HANI: The ambushing of the ordinary, you know, White kids and women along some of our highways is something that is not acceptable and I am saying to these Comrades here that every member of the ANC should be a combatant by these type of things, a fighter for peace. 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? it may, Mr Mkhanela was again identified on the 16th March 1994 at the corner of Roets Drive and Moagi Street in Vosloorus by the applicants and his comrades when they were returning from a rally. It was then decided that they should kill Mr Mkhanela and then they devised a plan to detract the ... ... a robber and said no, no, no, he was committing lots of bank robberies in order to keep the police busy so that they wouldn't chase political - his comrades, that was his contribution to the struggle. So the circumstances must be taken not in isolation, it's not only this but it's coupled with ... 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. CHAIRPERSON: Was it possible at that time to know the conflict that was going on between the Mbcoto and the comrades? Do you think he knew about this and they started to follow him? The deceased was attacked by, amongst others, the two applicants. That night the applicants together with their other comrades, decided to visit some taverns to, as they put it, disarm people they regarded as enemies of the ANC. Their first victim was the second applicant. The latter was at the ... It was part of the plan that any firearms found there would;d be taken for use by comrades. At that stage there was already a number of Umkhonto weSizwe ("MK"), the military wing of the ANC, infiltrated into the area. the MK members trained the Applicant and some of the AYC members. On the day ... Comrades and friends, that brings us to the end of the hearing here today. We were as you've heard me say several times today that we were expecting some people from Driefontein, for a number of reasons they're not able to come here today. ... my underwear. They did not ask me anything. They did not ask me in which organisation I belonged to. We were assaulted together with other comrades. There was one comrade by the name of Kilyeta Nyomakazi, they wanted to shoot him. After that they put us in ... They could not find him. On Monday they went back again, they could not find him. On Tuesday they did find him in the mortuary. Here at home the comrades kept coming asking how things were going. When we tried to explain to them they were of assistance to us. They helped us about things that ... MR KOBESE: Thank you officials, parents, comrades and friends. I feel privileged that I should give this brief summary about the incident that occurred here in Uitenhage at the time of the shooting of the people in Langa. Firstly I would mention that it is of importance that we would see that the ... was unaware of any attack upon Sikhakhane's relatives. He was not a member of any political organisation at the time and did not associate with the comrades. He was a member of the trade union, which was affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions ("Cosatu"), at the cement factory ... ... agenda, namely an interest to rob money in going to Mr de Villier's farm and that, despite any political objective he may have shared with his comrades, he had gone there in an attempt to obtain more than just arms and that his primary aim was to enrich ... |