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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. ... 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 ... 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 ... ... people that were running past me and I shouted for help, asking people to please help me get up and remove me from where I was and there were those comrades who were running with us who heeded my call of distress and they came to me and asked me what happened comrade and I said to them I don't ... 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 ... 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. ... it would look like we'd been hit or knocked down by a car and they also wrote a letter to my father indicating that my father had given birth to comrades and therefore his lifespan would be ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... After some time it was quiet and I then went back again. When I went back after some time, when I arrived, Johannes Selai was arrested by the comrades and they were asking him questions, beating him up, saying that he was an informer because he was with the people from the other side and at the ... 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 RIBEIRO: They aided comrades who were going to exile, ... know how and they said he seemed to be mad. Well, it was on that occasion that I said to them seeing that I do have a job and I do trust that the comrades do help one another, may I request that you go and find out exactly what happened. If the situation means that in your view it requires a ... ... 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 ... ... has got a spot on the side, one person called himself James, another one called himself Mike. I spoke to them, they said they wanted three or four comrades that will work and be trained together. I let them go away with Congress Motsweni and I went on a night vigil and while I was still on that ... ... and prejudice the apartheid system. We heard that fire was raging in Sasol and they announced both Sasols although then I didn't know, my fellow comrades they were also part of this coordination of attack. We were highly, you know, motivated and highly encouraged to fight ... ... the funeral of Mr Zazi Khuzwayo. When we came back from this funeral we didn't sleep. We were phoned many a time and we were called that we were comrades, because we had gone to that funeral - we had gone to the chief of the comrades' funeral and until I told my mother-in-law. My ... |