sjambok

CHAIRPERSON: But his punishment is a whipping on the behind with a sjambok, that is what he anticipates.

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 ...

MRS SIZILA: They used a sjambok.

... 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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

... 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 ...

The police were called immediately and two of the three policeman started assaulting him with a sjambok and a kierie.

During the interrogation, Taylor struck Khubeka with a sjambok.  According to Botha, this was not a severe assault, but a way of emphasising the seriousness of the situation and the need for her to co-operate with them.  The interrogation lasted approximately fifteen to twenty minutes and ...

MR R.B. CELE: No, I cannot remember because a lot of people partook in the lashing of those people. There were about 600 people present. You would give them a lash and give the sjambok to another person until they had received their number that had been decided upon.

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 ...

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.

They came that night for me. Again, it was the same, same person who was the same person, Rooi Otto all the time. I was sjambokked that night at Alexandra Police Station. There were other people being tortured whom I can never know who they were, but I know that Marlo Simpumala was also around ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.