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MR MOTSAMAI: It was the comrades, they were fighting against the high rent.

MR MAPELA: Comrades said I must go to a doctor, Dr Mashlangeni, who is late. I went to him. They said that if I want to lay charges I would have to give Dr Mashlangeni's report and then go to the State Doctor. It is he who was going to confirm what Mashlangeni had diagnosed. I thought it was ...

DR RANDERA: Before you came to us, had you discussed events of that day with any of your comrades. Did you go to Ms Gasebue and told her about what happened or have you kept this to yourself all these years.

MR MANTHATA: On coming out of the hospital there was never a follow-up of what happened to some of your comrades and their families perhaps?

... there and these people were standing outside. We were arrested and we were charged for setting the bar alight and then we were left but my other comrades were sentenced for about 8 ...

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.

... --- 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. ...

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?

... 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 ...

REV MOKWENA: They were Comrades at that time, but I do not know which particular structure that he belonged to.

... it was just hanging over together with a bullet. Fortunately it did not fall off, it just hung on my face. I tried to put my jawbone back. The comrades then realised that I had been injured. It was obvious. It was a distance of about ten metres, somebody else got shot and fell over. ...

... of credibility, but I don't understand why somebody would say, 'well listen I think I went to a cafe, I took out a loaf of bread to go and feed the comrades who were starving in the bush. Some people think I stole that bread, but as far as I'm concerned I paid for that at the till but there's an ...

DR RANDERA: She wasn’t part of the Comrades, she wasn’t part of the UDF, she hadn’t been involved in burning houses, attacking people ?

went there as a family. We were going to visit him as usual. Pres Mandela was also present on the day of the celebration and some of the other comrades were also there. When we went back home, he was about to be released, because out of the 15 years I think, he spent only three years. When his ...

... steps. We went to make a statement at Khosa House, we made a statement there. We met Mr Chris Naidoo. I don't remember the date. We took all the comrades to that place, the witnesses who were there were five, whom I met with to Johannesburg. They were taken to the doctor. I don't know what ...

And do you have any idea why they attacked you and your family and burnt your house down? --- They were saying my children were comrades and the whole family was ANC.