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comradesExplanation ... 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. ... ... 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 ... MR FORTUIN: Do you know of - was that the period as was commonly known in the Western Cape where the Witdoeke and the comrades were in conflict with one another, 1991? MR WILLIAMS: It's Mjaban, he's presently in Portugal. He's the one who came here and we met, he spoke about the AK47 because there were a lot of comrades who came to my workplace who were like to be involved in this armed robbery. ... all honesty to get clarity because we could not get from your evidence when you actually saw the two firearms which were in the possession of your comrades when you went there. We couldn't get clarity when they were obtained or when you first saw them. I just want you to tell us when did you ... ... 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 ... 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 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. ... 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. ... One of the comrades came, by the name of Master, residing nearby our home and he made all the necessary arrangements. more than 15, because Comrades were more than 15 in the cell they would go to one ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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. ... 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. MR VISSER: And the persons amongst whom Mr Nceba and of course his comrades you regarded as trained terrorists? 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. |