toyi-toyi

MR MAKWETHU: I don't know, but you could hear that it was the toyi-toyi song, the freedom song. My worry was that I was not sleeping at home, they didn't know what happened to me.

[Indistinct] ... to get the situation clear in my mind, on the day when you were shot what was the situation in Paballelo? Was there unrest? Was there police activity?--- There was unrest during that time. As you know, every year on the 15th June arrangements are made for the commemoration on ...

MS PLAATJIES: Yes. The children, the students were toyi-toying through the townships and they were arrested.

MR SEMENYA: Now, we were listening to Mr Morgan, he told us yesterday that when you people came into the car, you were just toyi-toying, when you left the manse? Is that correct?

looking for they said they are looking for petrol bombs because my child was toyi-toyiing and my problem now is that I was affected since then, even my eyesight is affected since last year August.

MR MAHAULE: I did not see any need to differentiate because when there was a toyi-toyi we were all grouped into whether you are in uniform special branch and soldiers camouflage

MR HENS: There were some other people who appeared in court, but this boy had been arrested as one of the people who were in a toyi toyi.

approaching her house, toyi-toying on the 27th. She ran away with her two children and approached the veld and we chased after her. We found her near a river and we caught her. The comrades who caught her were around about 10 to 15. She was already bleeding at that time on the head and on the ...

jubilation. Somewhat premature, as it turned out. In Phokeng, Winterveld, Odimoritele, Unibo and elsewhere, people sang freedom songs, they toyi-toyed and they celebrated the downfall of the government. The retributive clamp-down that followed was swift and severe. In Phokeng itself the chief ...

MR MBHELE: The information with regards to Musi, I gathered it from when they mounted a roadblock and blocking the buses, not to go through, kids not to go to school, and they toyi-toyied as usual, that the kids must - or students should not go to school, and a certain group came as well from ...

MRS KHETHWA: They said it is because he is the one who brought toyi-toyi to Venterstad, so he is the one who must give me the Death Certificate.

MR MFAZWE: What makes me to mention all of this, is that as time went on, since I had just arrived here, I was in panic for my children who were moving all over, going to shebeens, joining toyi toyi's and boycotts. I was always uncomfortable because I always they were going to participate in the ...

I must say more than anything, she has probably changed my views, my racist ideas and everything else. One of the main comments that she always passed to me was "what would you have done, had you been the black chap living there in Chesterville" and I've got to say if I was, I probably would ...

Shabangu testified that he was an ANC Youth League supporter.  He did not have personal knowledge of the deceased but he was aware of the rumours that the deceased was an informer.  He stated that he was present at the ANC Youth League meeting which was held at a school where they also spoke ...

CHAIRPERSON: That was the night before, sorry. Oh yes then he says at 3 a.m. I heard toyi toying.

MR DUMA: There was stone throwing and incidents of toyi-toying at the time.

After he was discharged from hospital, he was working for Mita, but he was having fits. Then when I asked him what had actually happened, he said they saw a group of people as they were patrolling, and these people were toyi- toying and they just heard gunshots and one fell and the others jumped ...

MS GQAMFANE: It was a toyi-toyi in the township, all the children were toyi-toyiing. All the activists were toyi-toyiing. The police came as they were toyi-toyiing. They were all over the township singing, toyi-toyiing. The police came, they chased them away. Children ran away. They ran to ...

MS VUSANI: She passed away in 1985. It was for the first time that she experienced this thing. We were from somewhere else, we had just relocated to Uitenhage. It was very bad, it was tense. It was the very first day that my brother had decided to go to a toyi toyi. Unfortunately he was ...

Myself and other comrades then took an initiative of addressing the problems at school due to the oppressive laws that prevailed at the time, we could not operate normally and our arrest and detention became inevitable. We then became very sensitive to the comrades who betrayed us or people who ...