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MR METHULA: Since I started patrolling the firearms or the arms that we used to get, assegais, tomahawks, axes, we would confiscate them and give them to the commander and he would pass them over to higher authority.

... them. Clearly he didn’t act within the scope of his authority if he would authorise somebody to be killed, so he wouldn’t get amnesty, or he could pass the buck and say I got it from PW Botha and there the buck would stop because PW Botha wouldn’t be able to get amnesty. I think I’ve found the ...

of our job being in the Security Branch, we would intercept information at a certain time on a certain date, there would be a crossing through Mac's Pass or Makanya's Drift or something like, we would then go and lay ambush positions and we would wait for the people and they would be arrested. I ...

with Msibi who was my commander. He had direct contact with Swaziland and he would inform me of instructions that filtered from Swaziland. I would pass such instructions to my members. That is how the Newcastle incident came about. As a government institution it was selected as a target. I ...

CHAIRPERSON: That's not an answer to the question. The question is: On your way to get a taxi in order to go to Bisho, did you pass the Peddie Police Station?

MR MHLABA: Some of them whom I saw, there were those who were on top of the building which we were to pass, it building in stones. They were standing on top of the building and they were shooting at us. That was the last time I saw the people who shot at us.

Do you have any specific wish that you would like to be granted? We do not have the powers to grant people's wishes or promise anything, but we do pass recommendations to the Government. Now, is there anything that you have in mind? As a member of the community that was torn apart what do you ...

Whilst I was very intelligent, I used to take position one and I didn't pass. I receive symbol F, it was so painful.

to which people are dispersed and detached from their support networks, means that often there's no one to tell the story, and there's no one to pass on the news. Any person - any NGO, any social worker, or any person living in a rural area has horror stories to tell of how people are ...

Some of them may have even been in prison for having contravened the Pass Law or a Group Areas Act and just for being in prison for a brief 48 hour period, ended up in graves that are unmarked.

... information, the system, which is carefully monitored and managed so that we can check at different points what happened to this statement. Did it pass stage one, did it go to stage two, did it go to stage three, has this person been found to be a victim. It was done in such a tight manner that ...

... the problem and report later. I don't know whether to call it a culture or what but there was this tendency that you would do something and let it pass, but in this particular instance I informed them about the whole situation and told them that I went to the police and got permission from the ...

MR ALBERTS: Were you waiting for him at that time? Did you know that he was going to pass by there?

Is that your work, Chairperson, as we build reconciliation? Because I get angry when I pass that wall. I get angry that the women's own suffering is not being recognised by this country. I get angry because the TRC is silent about that. Because it is happening now. It is not happening in the ...

PROF. MEIRING: I just want to one ask one more question and then I’ll pass onto my colleagues. What happened to you, that you, being a lady was arrested and brutalised. Did that happen very often ? Were there many women who suffered from the Boputhatswana police ? What happened to you was very ...

*     They jointly decided that it would serve no purpose to interrogate Mngomezulu any further and therefore decided to take him back to Macks Pass on the Swaziland border.

... and he joined the PAC while he was in prison. They will give ...[indistinct] information to the TRC so that he can get out. That information, I pass it to ...[indistinct] and also to the TRC to accompany me to go there, but the Investigation Unit of the TRC said it is them who is going to ...

MR BALOYI: No, the tar road starts from the township until the robots. It was closed at that point and vehicles could not pass through there. That is where the Koyokos were travelling.

... and used by the apartheid regime. It was not only racist legislation, such as the Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act and the Pass laws which was an integral part of the apartheid system. It was not only the security laws, such as the Internal Security Act, the Terrorism ...

DR BORAINE: Thank you. Will you please be seated. Mrs Mokhonwana, just before I pass on the proceedings to my colleague, Tom Manthata, could I just ask you who is with you today, who is sitting next to you?