sjambok

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MRS SIZILA: They used a sjambok.

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.

... 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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

MS SOOKA: And afterwards they beat you with these plastic batons or the plastic sjambok or a plastic baton?

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... floor they would lift the two tables so that you can hang. At the time you would have nothing on top and they would push you and beat you with a sjambok all the ...

... 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 ...