Hippo

MS MANZIYA: Yes, the hippo came from the direction of the town and administered teargas, pushing them towards the direction of the Ama-Afrika, so that they were not in a position to run away, that is when the Ama-Afrika got an opportunity to hack and attack them.

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 ...

... was spotted by the police officers, and they suspected something and in fact, Baseka was told not to do anything, and he jumped when he saw the hippo. All of you guys who were in that motor vehicle, escaped, but unfortunately, apparently one of you was arrested, my instructions are not clear ...

We met a hippo on the street and they we coming to collect another corpse. They said they would call a van to take her. When we arrived at Rabasotho, one policeman asked why they have to go to the other place, not Ntabene and he started arguing and they were saying that they were not going to ...

We reached a certain house next to the school, when in arriving to the road, we found those police vans in which - those who are like scorpions and they like and those vans which are used by the trucks, but they are soldiers just as hippo's.

... that empty bottle on my left eye severely. The one white policeman came and he dragged him out of the van trying to stop him from beating me. The Hippo was following the van and they took me to the police station with the van. [Indistinct] ...

In the incidents described in the 13 affidavits, the police arrived in hippo's, they threw stones at young people in Sekhulu Street. When the children ran away, they were shot. Tsozi Skewiwa who was 15, was murdered by the police while trying to run away from them.