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sjambokExplanation MR CEBEKHULU: When I enter in the garage it was Mrs Mandela holding sjambok. She was whipping Lolo Sono and Richardson, he was standing, kicking and the others, the Mandela Football Team, they were surrounding. MR WILLS: So if we have a situation here where I think it is common cause that the woman was assaulted with a sjambok and it is possibly not common cause, the intensity of that assault, you cannot definitely exclude the fact that some of those injuries arose from that assault? ... therefore, we do not hate the European because he is White, we hate him because he is an oppressor and it is a plain dishonesty to say 'I hate sjambok not the one who wields ... ... to him was ... (inaudible) ... that thing is used to put on the head so that he should always tell the truth and there was a bottle of water and a sjambok. And when the police were taking me from the cell they said I should come and see what is happening to Sipho. He had a cut beneath the ... MR BIZOS: Do you agree that hitting the human flesh with a hosepipe or a sjambok usually leaves marks which are described as tramlines? They got there, I don't know how they got into the house. They woke me up, they said that this is the person. There were a whole lot of people. Somebody identified me. I got up, they had a sjambok. MR RICHARD: Now, did any sjambok ... (intervention) MR GUMBI: If we got arms from the members in the community, and if we knew that this person was from our own community, that person would be disciplined with a sjambok. MR MNGOMEZULU: I assaulted them with a sjambok and we then went to the sports ground. MR SIBEKO: You said a sjambok was used, is that correct? ... chair. He just kept saying, "no, you cannot sit down in my office". This surprised me. Well this Taylor, this notorious Taylor, he had an orange sjambok with him. Then he looked at Strydom, and the Lieutenant Strydom said, "yes, Dennis come up with the truth". I said, "which truth?" Well, a ... MR RICHARDSON: Those were the things that we were using, the sjambok and the stick. And all this time they were kicking me, they placed me on top of the Casspir with a sjambok around my neck and around my waist. They were beating me all this time. They told me to toi-toi, because I was toi-toiing. They told me to say Viva and I did all that. They were assaulting me all this ... a racial struggle, because we didn't define in any ...(indistinct) because her or his colour as it is written in our books that you do not hate the "sjambok", but you hate the man who is using it. You can't say that you are hating the "sjambok", not the person who is using the "sjambok", because ... ... there and we couldn't handle those cattle and he told me that, in fact he told all of us, that our brains are as black as our anus and he had a sjambok in his hand and he said he would - he threatened to sjambok us but he didn't and he told us that if we were looking for money we cannot find ... MS MAGALWANE: I would add something as I go to Bizana a lot. They would sjambok, especially a policeman called Du Toit. And you would ask to see a member of your family. Then he would say that the men that are against the Government are not allowed to have visitors. He would come out with ... It appears to have been a struggle that commenced in a bar. Evidence was given at the trial that the accused had a sjambok in his hand and that there was a struggle for the sjambok, and the deceased gained possession of it, and he was still holding onto it when the investigating officer arrived ... ... anti-crime then the residents would go to them to say we need your assistance and so forth and they did the work quite excellently and without any sjambokings and sentences. But unfortunately as time went around after the six days war when now everyone was angry, it was the deaths and Alexandra ... "The assault would take various forms, clapping a detainee with open hands and clenched fists, beating a detainee with a sjambok, forcing a detainee to hold a chair by both arms upwards for an inordinate period. The detainee would collapse due to exhaustion and fatigue. Letting a detainee to do ... ... near the hall. And I saw someone on top of the Hippo and I could recognise that person. It was Solani. And he was in the Casspir with the sjambok around his neck. They were assaulting him with the back of their rifles as he was on top of this Casspir. There was a van following this ... |