sjambok

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 ...

... therefore. We do not hate Europeans because he is white, we hate him because he is an oppressor and it is a plain dishonesty to say "I hate the sjambok and not the person who wields ...

... 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.

He testified that on the evening in question, he was at his home when he heard people shouting "Inkatha". He left his home carrying a sjambok towards the direction from where the noise came and in an open veld, he found a large group of about 500 people shouting "Let's kill them".

... and other black people was in the past. In the police I became unpopular because I said, let us rather go in with a smile than with a whip and a sjambok. I took those sjamboks out of the police, I said no you simply don't beat people like that, you don't beat people if it's not necessary. So ...

... 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 ...

did not stop, because I told him that you are going to beat me. He then assaulted me with the rifle butt. I fell down. After that he beat me with sjambok and then the police left me there. One other police came. He asked me, who are you. I could not talk, because I was swollen ...

"On his back and all over his body with a hoe handle and with a sjambok similar to those used by the SAP. He was assaulted for two days."

got worried, but the previous night I had this dream while sleeping. I heard a voice saying , "Mama Mama", and I woke up. I went outside, I took a sjambok, I said I want to see this thing that's shouting Mama Mama outside. I went outside but I couldn't find anything. I went back into the house ...

And we jumped over the fence there and police chased us with their sjamboks and they followed us into the cemetery and in the cemetery a girl stumbled and fell right in front of me and when I tried to help her up we were both whipped with the sjambok - there were two white policemen who were doing ...

Mrs Mandela punched and slapped each one of them, referring to the four youngsters and called for a sjambok to be brought to her. Each of the four was beaten by Mrs Mandela. You must remember hearing that then, what do you say about that now against the background of so many of these allegations?

... leadership, there was nothing that could be done and we were convinced because we once went to a meeting where Mr Tabalala will call police and sjambok us even though we did not have an intention to fight ...

poles. They said I must get out from the car and I must put my hands around the poles. And when I tried to do that they started hitting me using a sjambok, and then they said these two black policemen must hold my hands so that they can beat me. They went on and on beating me. They were not ...

speak first and not ourselves, we thought is correct for us to come and hear in silence this time the screams, the begging for mercy as electricity, sjambok, knobkierrie was tearing both the human body and soul. All these things in exile and underground in prison we did experience, but the ...

I was beaten with the sjambok. The stuffed me in a mello-yellow, I pretended that I had died. They were burning me with cigarette butts, I have wounds on my head still. I do not have all my teeth - my set was affected - they kicked me in the mouth.

... it was really burning. Gunshots were fired, people were going up and down. We were told to make a salute, a fist and if we salute then you get a sjambok behind by the police, you are aimed at. So it was a chaos. What you were to do it is up to you what are you doing. Are you lifting up your ...

... wanted to know from us just what was going on at the time and what we were doing about it. That was when they disapproved of our decision to just sjambok and let these people go, because they felt that it was wrong that they had come from so far a place to attack us and then we just let them ...

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 ...