Hippo

... There was someone standing next to me I asked him what was going on and he pointed in front of me and said I must look. As I looked there was a Hippo a Casspir turning towards the main street going to Mount Ruth. At the time there was a group of soldiers walking down from people’s houses. ...

Policemen came in a hippo - and they said they wanted to ask us something so I asked them why they couldn’t ask us where we were and they said no they want us to go down. So they put us all into the hippo and we drove down to the police station and there they took out a list of names of people and ...

When I left the house I realised that they had many vans outside and there was also a big Hippo in which I found some of us and I also alighted that Hippo. And then we made jokes, asking one another, where are we being taken to? And then they took us to the cells. I found other people like ...

... I think all of us at that time I would imagine, we were in the country. At that time when in Mamelodi a six year/eight year old run down with a Hippo, then in return the reports would be that no, he was stoning the, she will be run down to death by a Hippo armed vehicle, then the reports ...

... come and help me. We dropped everything and went to help Mzayitani in the house. They were dragging him, they wanted him to be in the back of the hippo. Me and Michael stood again, fighting Mzayitani. They grabbed by his hair and they pulled all his hair from his head. They managed to - to ...

... the house that was burnt was Mr Pops’ house and on the very same night, the police came and they were together with the soldiers. They came in a Hippo. They came to arrest us. We were forcefully taken away. They didn’t even explain anything. They just put all of us on top of the Hippo. It ...

MS MOYESHA: We were coming from Maduna and we were going to a funeral in Kwanubushle, and we were walking down Maduna Street and there was a hippo opposite my home. We stood there and this hippo was trying to disperse us but we walked UITENHAGE HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE

... and said no, if these kids are really going to Khayelitsha, let's take them to jail instead. And they argued for a long time and then there was a Hippo which passed. It was written B6. Whilst these old gentlemen were doing this to us, there was this B6 Hippo with some boers in it. They took ...

We then went there. When we got there it was packed with people. Steven Mgezwa was called out to pray. He prayed. When he said amen there was a hippo that came. The police said, they said we must disperse. They had sjamboks in their hands. People ran away, going towards the fence, I then ...

... then? --- We ran, the two of us, and we got a taxi. When we headed for Trebol it was just chaos in Trebol, because we drove past a police Hippo, but we didn't know who the occupants of the Hippo were. It was just chaos. My mother was lying on the floor, and our mothers were being ...

MS MANZIYA: Yes, the hippo came from the direction of the town and administered teargas, pushing them towards the direction of the Ama-Afrika, so that they were not in a position to run away, that is when the Ama-Afrika got an opportunity to hack and attack them.

Another witness tells how she's heard about her teenage son. How he'd been in the street with friends when a passing Hippo shot him, no sense to it, no reason. Then they collect him, she said, still alive and batter his head against a rock. Twenty years later, tall and high pitched, she spits ...

couldn't touch the floor, and then he was thrown into the back of the hippo.

The policemen parked their hippo's next to the office and walked to the location. Then my son as he was running towards a certain house, which is near our home, they closed him out.

... they brought along white soldiers asking me are these the people who shot your child? We said, we do not know because they shot from inside the Hippo. I do not remember the names of that person who, Meintjies, they referred to him as Meintjies and he said I shot in, I fired in the air. Then ...

... that empty bottle on my left eye severely. The one white policeman came and he dragged him out of the van trying to stop him from beating me. The Hippo was following the van and they took me to the police station with the van. [Indistinct] ...

We met a hippo on the street and they we coming to collect another corpse. They said they would call a van to take her. When we arrived at Rabasotho, one policeman asked why they have to go to the other place, not Ntabene and he started arguing and they were saying that they were not going to ...

... was spotted by the police officers, and they suspected something and in fact, Baseka was told not to do anything, and he jumped when he saw the hippo. All of you guys who were in that motor vehicle, escaped, but unfortunately, apparently one of you was arrested, my instructions are not clear ...

... home because the boys are now around the school to strike. And we took different directions to go home. And when I approached the corner I saw a Hippo and a gun was pointed at me and they shot me with this pellet gun and I was ...

... my friends to go and look around at what was happening, but we never got to arrive exactly where there was confusion. As we were still standing a hippo police car came by. When it came people were already running around, running away and they sprayed teargas. Just when I thought of taking ...