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... When I saw that the driver of the vehicle which we had stoned and which had come to a standstill was a white person I immediately asked one of the comrades in the crowd for a knife. For me this was an opportunity to put into practice the slogan ‘one settler, one ...

For more than ten years we’ve been waiting for this day and this is the most important day of our lives where my father and his comrades have been buried, should I say, and they died as heroes. We salute them. We don’t regret their deaths, because they died for the people of this country. ...

... state of emergency, the army moved into our township and I understand that was the situation nationally. That should have been the major factor why comrades in large numbers left the country. Because they could see that if they don’t leave now, all of them, they were going to be, like some of ...

... the declaration of a national state of emergency in July the burnt and mutilated bodies of Cradock High School principle Matthew Goniwe and three comrades were found in a deserted beach area outside Port Elizabeth. Police said circumstances surrounding their deaths were ...

I come here on behalf of my family. I come here to express the feeling of betrayal by compatriots and Comrades. I come here to express our disappointment and the way we feel cheated of a dear little brother, a promising young man, a brilliant young man. I come here to talk about the hypocrisy ...

to indicate these words indicate the blow to my little heart. I could not associate death with you. I remember the long discussions we held with the comrades, as I sat on your lap stroking your beard. Oh the secrets I had, the intrigue. I felt very important to be included. I remember your words, ...

... and all these kinds of people. I remember when I first raised the question about necklacing on the death of Maki Skosana everyone who spoke, my comrades, spoke about it as commenting on it. And they made it clear to me, you should stop commenting to condemn, right because we are not ...

and I would believe that the child is dead. Especially now there are so many stories. The other one comes with car accident in Lusaka, now the other comrades come with in Luanda. Now what should I believe, really what should I believe? If only this Commission could help me. If my child is dead ...

... of their methods. Among Koevoet’s most efficient killers were SWAPO guerrillas who were caught and compromised, then forced to fight their own comrades. Security police section C1 was born. Three of the most hardened South African policemen became its commanders between 1979 and 1993. Dirk ...

... I think they were drinking as I understood it, chatting over some beers. And he told them, but you guys who done so much harm to your fellow comrades we are getting back to South Africa not very long and some of you are going to have to answer to that. One guy, Mike, just stood up and ...

Fifty percent of the comrades, believe you me, they believe that PW Botha should go to jail. They say that if PW is young enough to take a wife, he’s young enough to go to jail. This is their point of view and they say that ‘hy is te oud vir die TRC maar hy’s nie te oud om ‘n jong vrou te ...

about the mysterious death of a dedicated young community worker in the province and we move down south with a special report on the forgotten young comrades of the Cape Flats. We start in a town and a township with a rich irony in their names; the town is called Pretty River or Mooirivier, the ...

I’m now going to sing you a poem which was written by one of our comrades and a fellow writer, a Congress of South African writer also, he’s name is Keorapetse Willy Kgositsile and his song is called ”Red Song.”

The morning, DiWitty came to me and said that his heart was very sore. The comrades, whom he had done everything for, given his house, now they were taking his wife.

... plains of the Cape Flats was no exception. Here too a breed of urban teenagers took on the state: innocent, brave, committed. Many of these young comrades who lived and fought revolution now face another challenge; they struggle to confront the future, armed only with a badge of honour of ...

In regard to the Heidelberg tavern attack, I was supposed to throw a hand grenade but I did not do so. At the time I did not think it wise to do so because I would almost certainly have killed my comrades as they were retreating from the attack on the tavern.

in their hands. // I was listening to the radio at six o’clock then we hear about this thing, that there was a bomb blast at Phoenix. I told to my comrades that they were giving me the instruction to come back to the country that Phoenix was not our part. We were not asked to concentrate on the ...

... lifted a cloud of suspicion from a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe who was blamed by his community and his colleagues for the deaths of three of his comrades. ...

In George, the local ANC is getting ready for their day of showing their anger and protest. // Comrades, if we were to put down all the crimes of PW Botha, this wall is too small. We left out Ashley Kriel, we left out District Six, we left out Sophiatown; we left out Cato Manor. We left out so many ...

the hills of KaNyamazane became powerful symbols in the new struggle emerging under the state of emergency. From these watchtowers above the valleys comrades could watch the movements of the soldiers and the police down below. Up there surprise raids were less likely and groups could quickly ...