Hippo

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.

I went to Vlak to bury him. I carried, we took those boys to Vlak. We wrapped the bones with the white sheet and while I was still at home a Hippo came with soldiers and they took the bones away with them. They never told me anything. The following morning Malabo Sana came in the morning ...

MR KINIKINI: My dog was shot. The police shot this dog. We were taken out, it was me and my brother. The police took us out. They loaded us in the hippo. There was a

We therefore decided that some Telewenies should go to Osendiswene and wait for them, and they should in fact throw oranges and apples into the hippos because the soldiers normally thought that when you throw something into the hippo, it was a grenade, a hand grenade. When the soldiers came 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 ...

... 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 ...

soldiers. Then we, they asked us as to where we were coming from and I didn't even want to hide, I said okay, we were looking for you. They didn't even wait for us, we were led to the hippo and we arrived at Njanani police station.

start manufacturing petrol bombs now and we decided now that when we see any Hippo or any police vehicle, we will fire at it.

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.

the firearms they were having. I was assaulted on that day, and I was made to lie on my stomach very close to the Hippo, joining others who were already arrested.

... 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Then a Hippo arrived. There were police, white policemen. They asked me if I knew Abraham was dead in KwaNdebele. They said we do not want more than 50 people at the funeral. I went to KwaNdebele. I could not find corpses at the Government Mortuary. Where I found them I could not see ...

MS BELESI: From what I hear is that teargas was administered and they were chased by caspers and he was hit dead by a hippo.

... 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 ...