Hippo

... 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 ...

Late 1983, my unit was transferred back to Lusaka. Maybe because the river animals failed to destroy us. I say this because after we left, another unit replaced us and I am made to understand that a hippo overturned their dinghy and nine of them perished. God bless them also.

... 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 ...

MR LEWIN: Thank you and could you tell us a little bit, you mention the first time the police arrived with the Hippo. You mentioned a name Titing Masango. Do you know what happened to him later?

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 ...

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.

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.

I think the police arrived at about four in the afternoon. There was a hippo of the Stability Unit that came in in a red bakkie and the white bakkie and a white kombi. They arrived at the scene of crime. About six they took the body with and I was at home then. And later on at night I fled and ...

... you said that you were in the bakkie and you were then shot and left lying there. What actually happened around the bakkie, what happened to the Hippo from which you were shot in those say the two or three hours that you were lying there, did you see anybody else being attacked, ...

... was at home. She heard people outside. When she was going to see what was happening she met the police. The police took her, forced her into a hippo and they took her to the bushes in Mission. Two police were left with her. The two policemen raped her and then they left her in that area. ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

As I was also going out of the home to see if everything was safe, then a Hippo came by. Because I was also scared, I thought probably something could happen to me as well, and I thought of just going back home, running to the door, opening the door, it was just when I felt the shot.

... Springbok Patrols' personnel should be captured and, indeed, on a previous occasion one of them was captured in Katlehong. He was alighting from a hippo, a police vehicle, and was trying to arrest ANC ...

that there's a Hippo and I would be whisked out. They would be waiting for me and when they tried to fight me I would fight back. They wanted to fight me and I used to fight. I fought for the ANC. I am not sorry that my son has died. He has died for the world that was won by Mandela for ...

... time being in the bush, you know, you come across a serious fight. So Strongman was able to take out the MGM from the Casspir, you know, from the Hippo and jump outside and fire effectively up to ...(indistinct) where he could stabilise the enemy and Mr Coetzee, when he saw him carrying that ...

... to Kwanubushle and then we got united and we held hands so that the oncoming traffic should be able to pass by. We were singing. There was this hippo still driving past and back. It kept on doing that until we got to Mittas store and this casper drove past and parked next to the Seventh ...

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.

... 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 ...