sjambok

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

... a piece from a newspaper, a Mr Isaac Setseku who was tortured by means of electrical shocks, during my days. I can tell you they might have used a sjambok, they might have used a kierrie, and I'm against this whole question of electrical shocks. A policeman would not have dared doing it. Mr ...

... they are white, we hate them because they oppress us. Remove oppression, the hatred will go. It is therefore plain dishonesty to say I hate the sjambok not the person who is yielding it." Can you explain to the Committee what did you mean by ...

... to kill the alleged witches. When the crowd of which he was part arrived at the deceased's home, she was assaulted. Mulaudzi hit her with a sjambok. He also instructed the younger people to put a second tyre on the body of the deceased. He also pelted the house of the deceased with ...

MR MABOYA: I think I was the only one, because at that time if you hold meetings, Black school children, they will come there, they won't ask you, they'll just sjambok you.

Mzayitani had a Gemsbok sjambok and then he put it - and put it on the roof. The police came in, Meshack I cannot remember the other policemen but he was a Coloured. They both came in, they were policemen. They went to the room and they took of the blankets from the person who was sleeping on ...

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.

MR SIQHOLA: He would be the first person to assault people, he had a sjambok.

MR LYSTER: Interrogated while sitting on a cold, wet floor. Is that where Sergeant Tshivhase beat you on the back 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 ...

"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 ...

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

... 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 ...

... 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 ...