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sjambokExplanation MR KGOATHE: He found that my father had lots of marks, that he had been whipped with a sjambok. He had also been beaten with the buckle of a belt on his body. Even the Dr Joubert, he'd also been told by my father before he died that he slipped on soap, but when the doctor said no, no, no this ... CHAIRPERSON: But his punishment is a whipping on the behind with a sjambok, that is what he anticipates. And you indicated that as you were leaving the school, the premises, you were assaulted by the police. What did they assault you with? --- They beat me with a sjambok. but from the notes at my disposal, there is an allegation that you were beaten at the police station during your detention in 1985 - in fact with a sjambok. Is that - is that not during 1985 ... ... A girl called Nthombizolwa and a boy called Mbongi came out. The other one, that is the man, had a knife, and the girl, Nthombizolwa, had a sjambok. They called me. They said, "You come here, a member of Inkatha." Should I have known what was going to happen I could have ran way, but I ... ... died or not. Maqok, in his affidavit, confirmed the allegations of fact in Mjo's affidavit and admitted that he assaulted the deceased with a sjambok repeatedly in the "dark house" and near the river. He said he intervened to prevent comrades from burning the deceased's wife ... MR LYSTER: Interrogated while sitting on a cold, wet floor. Is that where Sergeant Tshivhase beat you on the back with a sjambok? but he was pale, pale that time. On his return he was crying telling us he was from Kempton Park Police Station, they beat him, they kick him, they sjambok him there, he said on their way to Kempton Park Station. He was inside of the car's boot. How do you manage it, how do you think. That's ... ... wanted to know why we were throwing at them and he wanted to know why should we throw stones at you, we don't know you and the one hit him with a sjambok and he fell on the bed and as he was getting up, the other one said, shoot at ... "The deceased and his sons would ambush youth meetings or even sjambok or throw stones to cause them to disperse." ... 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 ... When I came running there was a boy Buxman Labile who jumped out of the lorry and he had a sjambok in his hand. He ran in my direction and he asked me, what is it? Do "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 ... an elderly lady from Umlazi. She had been in detention previously, I think, also under Section Six and she had been severely beaten. She still had sjambok marks on her back. I would just maybe ask the Commissioners to see if they can find out what has happened to Gladys and, you know, whether ... ... We then went to Sipho and on our arrival he did not suspect anything. We requested him to come outside and we started assaulting him with the sjambok. We questioned him on the sofa issue and he said Buno was the person who had suggested that they steal them. When we asked him where those ... gun in his possession. I was hit, punched, slapped, beaten with a sjambok and at one point threatened with a knife. They then came and hit me with a sjambok because they said that we wanted to be free but we couldn’t clean the location. I again went into the house and while I was standing against the door they came into the house again and attacked me. We were told that we were wanted at Worcester to see the ... ... a tube in my face. I pretended to be dead, because I could not breathe. They were scared at that time. They tried to beat me in my thighs with a sjambok and I could not move. They then took a cigarette, they burnt me with the cigarette and they used seven cigarettes. They wanted me to wake ... ... such lawful possession was forthcoming, the culprit would not only loose possession of the firearm, but would most probably also be whipped with a sjambok and assaulted in other ways. The object of this, the SDU members explained, was not only to deter others who might use their illegal ... MRS NGOMANE: No, I have never seen him with a gun. What I saw from his was a sjambok. |