Hippo

MS KAMA: We as the family, we are waiting for people to come home, the hippo came together with the Councillors' cars. The police were also there. The car was in front of the hippo. They then shot at us while we were in our yard.

The next day at one o'clock in the night a Hippo stopped outside. Many police were inside the Hippo. They got out and they surrounded my house. I was peeping through the window. Some of them lied on the grass and they pointed their long guns at my house. Some of them knocked at the door, I ...

I think it was towards dawn, whilst my house was burning, the people in the Hippo called me. They put me into the Hippo and asked if there are other people inside the house, the burning house. I said yes, there are. They said who. I said it is my kids. At that time I had forgotten that the ...

MS JOKAZI: No, nobody told me who they were. It's only the child on the 12th of August, when we were burying the child we came across the hippo, this child started running away when he saw the hippos, he said my uncle these are the police who shot and killed my mother, those were the police.

... let the students have a picket inside the school. We locked the gate in Sekamantwana but the police came. They first shot the lock open then the hippo drove through the gate, and as they were driving in they were actually shooting from the windows. ...

... inside our village as whether are they were coming to attack us or are they coming peacefully. We who were at the entrance to Zeerust, met a Hippo, then they asked us what we were doing. We were explain to them that we have problems. We are protecting our community because there are ...

... Steven Matkloko, he said to me, the bitch is also among the group. They picked me up and threw me into the Landrover. There was a Landrover and a Hippo outside the ...

You think that he was shot, and then he was put in the Hippoand they travelled around with him while he was still alive in the Hippo forsome time, and only after some time they took him to the hospital. --- Yes,that's what I said exactly.

MR BUCWA: They were standing and showing up on top of the hippo and the first shooting was the cause of my injury.

MR STRYDOM: Just to get clarity, do you know a hippo vehicle?

MR LEWIN: You say that he was shot from - was this from a Hippo?

... on patrolling, and at that time we saw a caspar from which they threw tear gas canisters and even shot at us. We ran into the nearby yards and the hippo or the caspar went away. Thereafter we saw a brown combi, the one that was mentioned before, and the caspar came back without the brown toyota ...

who were actually chasing the IFP, they came in large numbers and they shot at us in the hostel, up to the shacks. They were chasing us with their hippo's and others were running after us and we went to the nearest veld and they kept on shooting at us. That is the ...

MR MNYAKENI: Thereafter we were told that a hippo was approached, and we fled to our shacks.

... home. When he passed in the direction of our home, he was standing and other children were there. At home they were toyi-toying. Then the Hippo passed, the first one passed. Then it turned at the circle. Then it returned to Makweti. The second police van passed again. Then one ...

They found him. He was asleep by then. When he woke up I wanted to give him a trouser, but they denied. Then they took him with his underwear. Then they hit him with their rifle butts. They took him to the Hippo.

... to the police station. There came a police Casper. These people from Emlangeni family phoned this police Casper. The Emlangeni family phoned the Hippo and telling them that we were Comrades, we want to burn down their house. They went straight to the office. My brother was still standing ...

... during the vigils they didn't want political vigils, they just wanted the ordinary prayers and even at his funeral at the cemetery there were hippo's and rovers and he was buried and after his burials, after three days, police came they wanted the death certificate and without thinking I ...

MR FALTEIN: I don't know where these police came from. They were driving in a Hippo, but I am not sure which direction it came from. We started running away as soon as 2 it/...

... in December 1985 (he was 16 years of age) whilst moving with two of his friends who managed to escape. He was beaten up and thrown in to the hippo by the South African Defence Force soldiers, who dropped him at Algoa Park police station.That ultimately laid basis for his recruitment. ...