Hippo

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

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.

... and people were holding a meeting there so I went there with my luggage. Whilst we were standing outside in a group, policemen came driving in a hippo. And we alerted those inside, the policemen came and did not say anything, they just chased and dispersed us throwing tear ...

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 ...

... 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. ...

(iv) When we got out of the hostel onto the road we were picked up by a police casspir driven by a white man whose name I don't know. In the Hippo there was Chaka of the security branch, a white policeman known to me as Rooikop who had red hair, Peens and our driver. There were fourteen or ...

MS NOKIE: We were on our way to the graveyard. We went down Maduna Road and there was a Hippo following us. We went past Mittles shop down 16th Avenue and we stood there singing. There was a hippo in front of us and behind us and there was also a Rastafarian that was in front who was telling us ...

One day when this violence was still continuing the hippos came. We thought that they were there to bring peace but we were doubting the white policemen. And in that hippo with other, the police from elsewhere came to bring about peace in the area. We realised that those police in the hippo, ...

can you please rush to the police station. Jackson was in the police hippo. We don't know what happened, we were just in the meeting. I went to the police station, on my arrival nobody happened. They said to me can you report this matter to the police station otherwise if you don't they are ...

... and the police were on the road. We were delayed on our way to Cradock. We decided to go back home. In the morning, after the funeral, I saw a Hippo in front of my house. There were soldiers in that Hippo. They wanted me, they took me to the Hippo. I was on my way to work at that time. ...

disappearance and I told them that the Hippos were running around the township, people saw the Hippo running down to the bushes. I didn't know what it was carrying. Maybe my child was also carried in the Hippo. His father gave me the money so I travelled to the government mortuary. I took a taxi ...

... doctors took me to the theatre to operate me. I stayed for two weeks and the third week, when I was going to the township, I met police in their Hippo. People were running away. I was still in pain at that time. When I tried to run away the police came. They took me to the Hippo. When I ...

... me, blind folded me and then took me to Mpuduli where there was soldiers' camps and when I arrived there, it was Soroloss, they tied me behind a hippo, the hippo that they used to sprinkle water with, I was naked and as was blindfolded behind the hippo there were stones that were uncomfortable ...

... and said no, if these kids are really going to Khayelitsha, let's take them to jail instead. And they argued for a long time and then there was a Hippo which passed. It was written B6. Whilst these old gentlemen were doing this to us, there was this B6 Hippo with some boers in it. They took ...

We then went there. When we got there it was packed with people. Steven Mgezwa was called out to pray. He prayed. When he said amen there was a hippo that came. The police said, they said we must disperse. They had sjamboks in their hands. People ran away, going towards the fence, I then ...

... There was someone standing next to me I asked him what was going on and he pointed in front of me and said I must look. As I looked there was a Hippo a Casspir turning towards the main street going to Mount Ruth. At the time there was a group of soldiers walking down from people’s houses. ...

MS MORETI: It was because of a Hippo. The Hippo was also bringing into the house, that is why the house was destroyed.

... the house that was burnt was Mr Pops’ house and on the very same night, the police came and they were together with the soldiers. They came in a Hippo. They came to arrest us. We were forcefully taken away. They didn’t even explain anything. They just put all of us on top of the Hippo. It ...

... then? --- We ran, the two of us, and we got a taxi. When we headed for Trebol it was just chaos in Trebol, because we drove past a police Hippo, but we didn't know who the occupants of the Hippo were. It was just chaos. My mother was lying on the floor, and our mothers were being ...

When I left the house I realised that they had many vans outside and there was also a big Hippo in which I found some of us and I also alighted that Hippo. And then we made jokes, asking one another, where are we being taken to? And then they took us to the cells. I found other people like ...