Hippo

I think the police arrived at about four in the afternoon. There was a hippo of the Stability Unit that came in in a red bakkie and the white bakkie and a white kombi. They arrived at the scene of crime. About six they took the body with and I was at home then. And later on at night I fled and ...

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 ...

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.

... 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 ...

... police, because the others were wearing some camouflage uniforms and the others were using SAP uniforms. They would just come in police casspirs, hippo that is, or two of them. They wouldn't ask questions, they would just start firing at ...

... 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 ...

MR DLAMINI: What I saw was a Hippo, but because I was not on the side of Bhumgame's home, I cannot say whether they were present or not, but according to Vuma, from those who were present, they said police were present.

MS MANGANYE: I would say in my opinion, that things might have started at the ground. I wasn't aware that this incident also occurred at the 15th houses because it's next to a river. I just saw the hippo standing on the open ground.

... to Kwanubushle and then we got united and we held hands so that the oncoming traffic should be able to pass by. We were singing. There was this hippo still driving past and back. It kept on doing that until we got to Mittas store and this casper drove past and parked next to the Seventh ...

... Springbok Patrols' personnel should be captured and, indeed, on a previous occasion one of them was captured in Katlehong. He was alighting from a hippo, a police vehicle, and was trying to arrest ANC ...

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.

... time being in the bush, you know, you come across a serious fight. So Strongman was able to take out the MGM from the Casspir, you know, from the Hippo and jump outside and fire effectively up to ...(indistinct) where he could stabilise the enemy and Mr Coetzee, when he saw him carrying that ...

that there's a Hippo and I would be whisked out. They would be waiting for me and when they tried to fight me I would fight back. They wanted to fight me and I used to fight. I fought for the ANC. I am not sorry that my son has died. He has died for the world that was won by Mandela for ...

Another witness tells how she's heard about her teenage son. How he'd been in the street with friends when a passing Hippo shot him, no sense to it, no reason. Then they collect him, she said, still alive and batter his head against a rock. Twenty years later, tall and high pitched, she spits ...

... home because the boys are now around the school to strike. And we took different directions to go home. And when I approached the corner I saw a Hippo and a gun was pointed at me and they shot me with this pellet gun and I was ...

... of taking me to the hospital they took me to Houtkop police station and they threw me on the floor and my mother arrived because she drove in a hippo. And she said to them I thought you were taking my son to the hospital. I don't know what happened but when I regained conscious I was at the ...

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 ...

... 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 ...