Hippo

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 ...

... home because the boys are now around the school to strike. And we took different directions to go home. And when I approached the corner I saw a Hippo and a gun was pointed at me and they shot me with this pellet gun and I was ...

... of taking me to the hospital they took me to Houtkop police station and they threw me on the floor and my mother arrived because she drove in a hippo. And she said to them I thought you were taking my son to the hospital. I don't know what happened but when I regained conscious I was at the ...

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.

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

MR NZIMA: Yes they were prepared to deal with this march, because that was my first time to see the casper which we called a hippo. We did not know when did they get this big vehicle to come and shoot at the students at that time. It was immediately after Hector Petersen was shot down, we saw a ...

Then the police decided that they were going to take everything in their hands. They arrived on the Wednesday before the funeral. Upon their arrival, people were more than the limited number that was given. They got into the house. They were driving the Hippo's.

amnesty application, he was instructed to go to the Caprivi strip to provide training to 200 Inkatha recruits who was being housed at a place called Hippo Base in the Caprivi strip and his job there was to train them inter alia in the use of Eastern Block weapons, rocket propelled grenades, hand-, ...

And then he went away, then we kept the women company. then a hippo came, they took the Headmen to go and look for the people who had burnt the house down.

soldiers. Then we, they asked us as to where we were coming from and I didn't even want to hide, I said okay, we were looking for you. They didn't even wait for us, we were led to the hippo and we arrived at Njanani police station.

... when I got here - as we were coming through the gate we - then there were a lot of old cars - when I got home - as I walked inside, there was a Hippo driven by police that was driving past my house, but they threw tear gas into my house as they drove past. I did not sleep at home that night, ...

couldn't touch the floor, and then he was thrown into the back of the hippo.

We had to protect our communities against these gangs. After this I waited round that area at a distance to observe what was happening. The police hippo van came and took the corpse away. Just after the police took the body away a crowd of people from Umthabega section came running. I suspect ...

MR PINZI: The police presence was that they were moving up and down and they were doing nothing. They were there at seven up to eight, up till nine. Then by the time I slept the Hippo was no longer there.

... they brought along white soldiers asking me are these the people who shot your child? We said, we do not know because they shot from inside the Hippo. I do not remember the names of that person who, Meintjies, they referred to him as Meintjies and he said I shot in, I fired in the air. Then ...

start manufacturing petrol bombs now and we decided now that when we see any Hippo or any police vehicle, we will fire at it.

MS LERUTLA: What I remember is that I heard people talking about that it was the Mayor who told us that. I heard a voice from the Hippo saying that we have to disperse within five minutes.

We therefore decided that some Telewenies should go to Osendiswene and wait for them, and they should in fact throw oranges and apples into the hippos because the soldiers normally thought that when you throw something into the hippo, it was a grenade, a hand grenade. When the soldiers came to ...