Hippo

REV MOKWENA: According to the information that I got they said that the policemen came, they blocked the doorway with their Hippo and they got inside the bar. When they got inside the bar they instructed some other children to get inside the Hippo and they started shooting the children. The other ...

... I tried to crawl. I was looking around for Lawrence Zimu as to where he was hiding. Fortunately I located him. There was a police vehicle, the Hippo, the one we refer to as a Hippo. It was going that sound. They were taking the cattles. You see mine were taken on the 28th, now on the 29th ...

And they took me into their car - it was a Sierra and I realised that they had two vans and two Sierra cars and a Hippo. The Hippo was parked a street from ours, they drove off with me and they went to arrest another friend of mine - we were doing Std 9 at that time. They also hook him up, they ...

... 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 ...

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

... 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 ...

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 ...

WITNESS: No, I did not. I only noticed that when I got out of the truck that the barracks has been burnt. They sent a hippo into my house. They put me into this hippo and the children were put into the trucks with goods.

... would - if they see us talking they would ask what we’re saying. I would say no we must talk because our mouths are not closed. Whiles there the hippo came and they took us into the hippo and because there was no man - no husband at home, I was the only one, so everything would be directed to ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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

... when I got here - as we were coming through the gate we - then there were a lot of old cars - when I got home - as I walked inside, there was a Hippo driven by police that was driving past my house, but they threw tear gas into my house as they drove past. I did not sleep at home that night, ...

MR PINZI: The police presence was that they were moving up and down and they were doing nothing. They were there at seven up to eight, up till nine. Then by the time I slept the Hippo was no longer there.

We had to protect our communities against these gangs. After this I waited round that area at a distance to observe what was happening. The police hippo van came and took the corpse away. Just after the police took the body away a crowd of people from Umthabega section came running. I suspect ...

MS MAYA: Thank you Mr Chairperson. Mr Tule, you said in your statement that you saw a policeman by the name of Fouche standing on top of the hippo and he had a red flag and when he dropped it, the shooting started and that is when you were shot. Could you briefly explain to us what actually ...

... months they are changed, and then we also had a base in van Reenen, there's one in Tweefontein and there's one in Vaalbank, and they travelled with hippos, we didn't have hippos. I'm glad she asked the question, Kwandebele police never had a hippo. That was General Wandrag's people ...

... 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 ...

amnesty application, he was instructed to go to the Caprivi strip to provide training to 200 Inkatha recruits who was being housed at a place called Hippo Base in the Caprivi strip and his job there was to train them inter alia in the use of Eastern Block weapons, rocket propelled grenades, hand-, ...