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comradesExplanation ... a person who is suffering from stress. It was just a letter showing his sickness. After that then in court they say those are the tricks from the comrades, they make tricks with medical certificates or letters from the doctor. They will examine themselves in Oranje Hospital to verify as to ... MR NGCOBO: I wouldn't be able to know because it was never ascertained, but what I ascertained was that they were killing comrades. Why comrades were being killed, I also didn't know, all I know is that IFP and the ZPs were killing the comrades. Myself and other comrades then took an initiative of addressing the problems at school due to the oppressive laws that prevailed at the time, we could not operate normally and our arrest and detention became inevitable. We then became very sensitive to the comrades who betrayed us or people who ... before the 14th of August. There was a conflict between the ANC and the IFP. The week before I was injured there was a funeral of three Comrades at Ratanda. On the day of the funeral more Comrades were shot by the IFP members and thereafter we decided that there should be a self-defence unit ... MRS NQOBE: In 1986 on the 16th of June it was a Sunday. Comrades came into my home. I was at home together with the members of my family. They wanted our brother here and he was not available and they said they discussed something because there were a lot of girls outside. And then they said ... ... I could see that he was a kind of a person who died fighting. Brian was buried. I will leave the story. Brian was buried with the support of the comrades. It was a very big mass funeral. The funeral could not take place in Tembisa but had to take place in Soweto because Ndatema Gulu wanted ... MR JILI: The reason was we were not supposed to sell other comrades. We knew from long time that if you were arrested as a comrade you must die alone, you mustn't reveal other comrades. not get into the township anymore. There was not any link anymore between the Moutse people and the police. Now there was this communication. The comrades would spread their pamphlets. The police would also retaliate by spreading their pamphlets. The police would come and control the ... ... this gang was terrorising the community. The name of the gang was Noxies Gang. And again the other name was Bad Boys. We tried in many occasions as comrades to negotiate with the Police, that they should try to discourage this gang to continue with their activities. Then the Police didn't listen ... We had a problem of how to report the incident to his family, and therefore I said to Mr Ndlaba that we will say that he had been killed by the Comrades. We went to the family and expressed our regrets and told them that he had been killed by the enemy. ... but it appears that I am just going to die hitting in bed. Fortunately, while I was still having these thoughts and these blackouts, I heard some Comrades speaking in the distance. That was Africa was a section commissa. He said maybe I was then affectionately called Phyilo - Philosophy. I was ... As Mr Lyster has said this story relates to your abduction, and in your instance attempted killing, and the killing of your three comrades on 5 December 1986. --- Yes. MR MHLONGO: No, we've been comrades since 1989 in the area of Tsakane. MR MAZIBUKO: There was a fight between myself and fellow comrades. MR MBUYAZI: I killed these women with a knife. One of them that I killed died right inside the house wearing an IFP T-shirt and we tried to run after the others by the help of Tulani and the other comrades, we ran and we outran them and we caught them and I stabbed them. ... could go in. We wanted to ask the route or the direction to the house. He was afraid, he did not want to open the door. We told him that we are comrades, we just wanted to know the direction to the house and he was scared, he didn't want to open the ... ... a very big supermarket. While he was still at the hall he saw workers running away from his shop. It was midday, at about 12 o'clock. The comrades were burning his shop and his workers ran for their lives and he went to his shop to extinguish the fire. After a few days he was supposed ... MS NHLAYISI: Were you amongst those who were responsible for supplying food and other things at those bases where your comrades were staying? MR RIBEIRO: They aided comrades who were going to exile, Mr Andrews, Mr McBride tells me that the general understanding amongst the comrades in Wentworth and in political circles around Wentworth was that in human rights trials, political trials like the one you were involved in when you became a state witness against your comrades, it was generally ... |