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comradesExplanation in governmental structures were the targets of hit squad actions launched by the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto weSizwe, Self Defence Units and militant comrades. ... My brother's friends, the other Comrades, came the next morning and the police came. They started chasing those friends outside our yard and they started beating those boys with their guns and they were badly injured. They took some to the hospital. On the day of the night vigil the police came ... ... between yourself, as an activist and your community? People supported the youth very much, but were very afraid to be seen with other active comrades in the streets, because some of the communities felt that these people are radicals and some were worried about their own safety, if the ... ... nevertheless made himself part of a group which set out to attack IFP supporters in an IFP area which was finally carried out by the applicants’ comrades. Two of the applicants’ associates died in the attack. It is not clear at which stage of the attack the various victims were killed or ... ... I can just speculate about, I can't - but you know, if what he's saying is that, you know, we sort of all knew that if any of us betrayed our comrades we would be executed, I don't think it was as dramatic as that, Mr ... ... I was arrested for fraud and forgery at Barklays Bank. This case led to my detention and I was then sent to prison. While I was in detention, the comrades would come and visit me and wanted to know why I was involved in such cases. I said to them, it's because we wanted money since we were ... M TYOBEKA: Yes, there was. Even when I was still in hospital I heard about people that my son had been taken by one of the comrades to East London to go and lodge a complaint, going to the lawyer Siwisa. MR RICHARD: I did contemplate and think about the situation. The applicant was then a soldier put to guard the prisoners, however his comrades who he describes as many in number and out of control, interfere with the situation ...(intervention) MR DE KOCK: Yes, there was a messenger from the Civics Association who was there and the comrades were also there and they indicated that we could bury him there if we wanted to, but that they would exhume his body and burn his body afterwards. MR CORNELIUS: He was then placed under arrest and your other comrades or colleagues took him to John Vorster Square. MR JONES: Some of these visits did happen. If I can elaborate, at the time there were a number of problems around leadership individuals in the Black Peoples' Convention, these were friends of ours, comrades of ours. ZW NDARANA: Yes, I did and I met Viangewe, one of the comrades and I told him what happened to me. He took me to MR PUNGULA: Yes, among other things, and the rest that was actually explained by my comrades, that she has actually done other evil things and actually not talking good about the ANC. MR VEVEZA: I left Mabuti Biko in the township. I went to town together with other comrades, Mzuamadoda Yengeni and Zukile Biko. He was a member of the ANC, he was in the struggle together with the other comrades. They would go from town to town together with others. They would fight with the PAC people. ... I also don’t remember the date but it was on Monday. I went to Phalaborwa town. I was wearing a T-shirt which had names of Sisulu and his comrades. I went to a bank and I was going to a nearby shop and two White men came to me running. The other one grabbed me with my T-shirt and the ... We had just bus loads of UDF activists and other anti-apartheid organisation activists had also returned from the funerals of Matthew Goniwe and his comrades in the Eastern Cape, and I think that we had come back with a sense of what the government was capable of and a sense of outrage that those ... ... of the important sites of the struggle. Objectively speaking, there is no shred of evidence that Phola was an informer, but the applicant and his comrades believed so. The existence of such belief has been corroborated by ... ... the argument put forward on behalf of the victims that the acts were committed to further the applicants' criminal activities. The two deceased comrades may well have been involved for political reasons, but the probabilities weigh in favour of a finding that the applicants involvement was ... ... 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. ... |