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HippoExplanation And then he went away, then we kept the women company. then a hippo came, they took the Headmen to go and look for the people who had burnt the house down. ... children that I had to take care of. I was assaulted for quite some time, and I kept on pleading for a number of times. And after some time the Hippo stopped and the other one who seemed to be in charge initiated that I be taken to the police station. I felt somehow relieved that I was going ... (i) Military training for offensive action within kwaZulu-Natal given by applicant to a group of Inkatha Freedom Party members during or about the middle of 1986 at or near Hippo Base, Caprivi, Namibia. 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-, ... MR LEWIN: Thank you and could you tell us a little bit, you mention the first time the police arrived with the Hippo. You mentioned a name Titing Masango. Do you know what happened to him later? 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, ... ... 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 ... Late 1983, my unit was transferred back to Lusaka. Maybe because the river animals failed to destroy us. I say this because after we left, another unit replaced us and I am made to understand that a hippo overturned their dinghy and nine of them perished. God bless them also. ... his house which has been attacked he was explaining as if people attacked his house being accompanied by the police. He explained that there was a Hippo which lit his house, and his house was stoned. It was hit my petrol bombs, and some property in his house, or furniture, was destroyed. I ... place. Then they went to the police in Mamelodi. There was a Hippo around, but I do not know what happened to those things. They took me away and I could see that there were cars parked down and it was a casper, a hippo and some other cars. They beat me for a long time, and they put me into a car and a Hippo was following. They took me to the police station in Despatch. I was there and I was swollen and my clothes were in tatters. I was kept there in a cell and after some time, after the whole day because I got there in the ... ... who is now a councillor, I think in Alexandria. They dropped him off at Park Station. He had come from Jo'burg, from Soweto and this other guy Hippo, I don't know his name, but we both were driven to Krugersdorp. He was told he could go. I was told to wait. I waited in an office, it was ... My family put on the alert, they searched the house. There was a case of beer and one bottle of liquor in the house, which I gave to the soldiers. They left in the morning in the Hippo. I was trying to hold them back, so that everybody will see them when they leave in the morning. MR GILBERT: On the 22nd of July 1985 a hippo came to our house, there was a shack at the back of my house, two policemen came to my yard, I was sitting on my veranda and they walked to the children at the backyard. They went to the closed shack and asked who stayed there and the deceased answered ... ... theunrest situation throughout South Africa. At a certain stagein Atteridgeville, when I was still a very young constable, westill used the old Hippo vehicles, we came around a corner andthere were two vehicles parked next to the road. A group ofnot youth but children, and I doubt if any of ... We didn’t know what they were - they - what they were looking for, but anyway during that time it was a usual sight to see a hippo in the townships. When I came back from work at the usual time, I saw my wife was quite anxious. And this one, my son was sleeping at his usual place. On the third day I saw a hippo which was just next to my house. When I confronted them, they informed, they asked me if Xoliswa is mine, I said that it was my daughter who was 11 years old. He said I must go to Mount Road so that I can identify the body. There was a shop at Ntwanye which was owned by Maliefatle Poele. The Hippo came there and then destroyed that building. The main objective of destroying that Poele's building, there was a graffiti written on the shop which was written "Viva ANC, Viva MK". It was surprising as whether those would ... |