Hippo

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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

(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.

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.

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.

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.

When they were actually not attending the classes then there was that friction and fighting, then on Friday they set alight her shack and stoned it. Then policemen came on Saturday in 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 ...

... was happening to this young man because some of his clothes were, I mean, were stinking teargas. We thought, perhaps, he was shot, taken into a Hippo and after that, that is what we think, then tortured and after that being gunned again. So, another thing which worries us too much because ...

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 ...

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-, ...

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 ...

... Park residents. On this day, the residents saw a long row of Kombis driving from the Eden Park side of Phola Park, approaching Thokoza. A police hippo motor vehicle passed this convoy, then sped off as the convoy entered the residential area. The SADF and IFP exchanged fire. A few Phola Park ...

group of youths and we were chanting freedom songs, but no stone-throwing was taking place. As we were chanting, after a few minutes I saw a police Hippo coming and they started firing. I am referring to the soldiers. We took different directions and people went to nearby places and I decided to ...