Hippo

MS MORETI: It was because of a Hippo. The Hippo was also bringing into the house, that is why the house was destroyed.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

... your face. They asked us where we were coming from and we told them and they said we were lying and that we would see. What helped us was that a hippo was coming in our direction and we were saved by the fact that they misunderstood this hippo to be saying that they should go. If that had not ...

... 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 ...

Where is he? I was told that he had been taken and the police wanted to put him in the Hippo and the comrades didn't want to give him over. They wanted to take him to the mortuary themselves, because they felt that the police were not going to take him straight to the mortuary. They left him at ...

... Park residents. On this day, the residents saw a long row of Kombis driving from the Eden Park side of Phola Park, approaching Thokoza. A police hippo motor vehicle passed this convoy, then sped off as the convoy entered the residential area. The SADF and IFP exchanged fire. A few Phola Park ...

... reason why I say this is because once when he was playing golf, you took him. He was with other kids but you simply took this one and put him in a hippo. You took him to a police camp and on a second occasion you took my son from school. They took him into a police camp and they asked him what ...

... him outside and the police cars were surrounding the house and the police were in the house and, together with the soldiers. They put him in a Hippo and other, his siblings were also in that police ...

When they were actually not attending the classes then there was that friction and fighting, then on Friday they set alight her shack and stoned it. Then policemen came on Saturday in hippo's.

... was happening to this young man because some of his clothes were, I mean, were stinking teargas. We thought, perhaps, he was shot, taken into a Hippo and after that, that is what we think, then tortured and after that being gunned again. So, another thing which worries us too much because ...

As I was also going out of the home to see if everything was safe, then a Hippo came by. Because I was also scared, I thought probably something could happen to me as well, and I thought of just going back home, running to the door, opening the door, it was just when I felt the shot.

MRS NHLAPHO: No. The police never took any initiative of calming the situation. They just got there and started Ketisi and the gangsters. All sorts of police cars were there, Combi's, Hippo's, airplanes were there.

When the policeman came to arrest me they arrived around about five in the early hours of the morning - they came with three vans and one hippo. The leader of this police force was Lieutenant Van Loggerenberg - I believe he was the entrusted one. They took me and they roam around the location ...

group of youths and we were chanting freedom songs, but no stone-throwing was taking place. As we were chanting, after a few minutes I saw a police Hippo coming and they started firing. I am referring to the soldiers. We took different directions and people went to nearby places and I decided to ...