Hippo

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

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

(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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

... 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 ...

... I tried to crawl. I was looking around for Lawrence Zimu as to where he was hiding. Fortunately I located him. There was a police vehicle, the Hippo, the one we refer to as a Hippo. It was going that sound. They were taking the cattles. You see mine were taken on the 28th, now on the 29th ...

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 ...

And they took me into their car - it was a Sierra and I realised that they had two vans and two Sierra cars and a Hippo. The Hippo was parked a street from ours, they drove off with me and they went to arrest another friend of mine - we were doing Std 9 at that time. They also hook him up, they ...

... 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. ...

Policemen came in a hippo - and they said they wanted to ask us something so I asked them why they couldn’t ask us where we were and they said no they want us to go down. So they put us all into the hippo and we drove down to the police station and there they took out a list of names of people ...

MS MOYESHA: We were coming from Maduna and we were going to a funeral in Kwanubushle, and we were walking down Maduna Street and there was a hippo opposite my home. We stood there and this hippo was trying to disperse us but we walked UITENHAGE HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE