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sjambokExplanation MS SOOKA: And afterwards they beat you with these plastic batons or the plastic sjambok or a plastic baton? ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... werk nie", but he replied, "Nee, hierdie man is nie siek nie", and he took me by force, he opened up the gate and he handcuffed me, and he had a sjambok that they call a rubber baton, and he hit me in the joint of my neck and I fell down. He said, "Staan op!" and I wake up, and he said, ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... 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". ... other man is police Mahani and Mr Macoshu. On arrival there as they were still beating us, they were beating us, harassing us and Mr Mahani while sjamboking us, the sjambok beat Macoshu and Macoshu because he was angry now, tried now to harass us ... 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 ... 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? MRS NGOMANE: No, I have never seen him with a gun. What I saw from his was a sjambok. the house and I said no, you don’t tell me what to do. Why are you beating my son? They said that I have too much to say and they attacked me with sjamboks. After a while Nkomiphela came along with a knopkierie and a sjambok and he also beat me behind my ear. I had bruises all over my ... gun in his possession. I was hit, punched, slapped, beaten with a sjambok and at one point threatened with a knife. MR MOGASWANE: They used to sjambok the youth, especiallly when they saw people in groups of more than three people. MR PIENAAR: Nothing. I want to confirm to you again. A soldier never carries a sjambok, never carries a haelgeweer, the only thing he takes with him is his weapon, that's and R4 or R1 or AK47, whatever it may be. No other weapons. ... 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 ... MR TAMBODALA: What I can add, while we were beaten up my body was swollen. I was beaten up with a sjambok and I ... his voice, because I knew him, he was our councillor and we had no problem with him. So he said the children ought to be assaulted. They took a sjambok and told my husband to assault my son so as for them to see that he didn't agree with what they were doing. Then they said we shouldn't go ... He beat me with a sjambok. He then immersed my face in water. In iced water. Every time I would go there her would threaten me and he said he would immerse my face in cold water. ... 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 ... |