Hippo

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 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 ...

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 ...

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

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

MS LERUTLA: What I remember is that I heard people talking about that it was the Mayor who told us that. I heard a voice from the Hippo saying that we have to disperse within five minutes.

The old ones instructed the young ones to go home and truly speaking they actually anticipated that policemen were coming and really policemen came to the school in vans and hippo's.

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 ...

... 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.

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-, ...