toyi-toyi

MR MENERA: As I've explained that these gangsters, the operations that they carried out, the aims or objectives of these gangsters or the aims of the former gangsters of Mr Phelane was to shut the ANC down in Brandfort, that there's be no one talk about AN or shout Viva or toyi-toyi around ...

CHAIRPERSON: Ntombomzi, where you were playing did you see a toyi-toyi?

MR KOTI: It had to do with the toyi-toyi because some elements within the group, were criminal elements and while the toyi-toyi was taking place, they would participate with the intention of - with criminal intentions.

just toyi-toying. And the whites would see us toyi-toying

MR SIBANYONI: Were you present when those toyi-toyi'ing took place where people were mentioned who were not wanted by the community?

CHAIRPERSON: Do you know what the toyi-toyi is?

MR NGCOBO: No. I did not... I did mention who the people were because they were known. They used to toyi toyi and celebrate the whole night after the had killed a person, and everybody knew them and knew what they had done. They were toyi toyiing even near the police station.

MR WILLIE BALOYE: On the 23rd we were on our back from the S&B Stadium rally of Sianquoba, we moved by train from Johannesburg and we were singing and very happy. When the train got to Kaalfontein there were no people inside. We were toyi-toyiing. When the train left the platform a group of ...

MR LAX: (Incomplete) ... about this painful event in your life. Could you please, by way of starting, just tell us a little bit about your son, about your family, about the things that he did, so we can get a picture of him and of your family. --- I am Mananki Siphe. I live in Orange Free ...

R GQEME: Yes, we walked passed these Whites. Some of us walked down Dendes Street and down Dunga Street and we joined the rest and the bridge. Those - that was the crowd that was toyi-toying and we moved towards Sipunzana.

MRS MAY: There was toyi-toyi all over.

MR MABASO: It is the same with Stephen. I’ve indicated that I was, that I was on patrol. It was supper time. Other had to have their supper, and others were expected to go on patrol whilst others were having supper. We all knew him. We all knew them. Everybody and old women and aged women and ...

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.

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 ...

It is the people that went to King William's Town, toyi-toying that gave us all the trouble. They came and burnt out houses down.

MR BIZOS: ...(indistinct - no microphone) particularly by Mr Wagener who is not here, who, when asked what examples were there of anyone's life being in danger in the hundreds if not thousands of applications that have hitherto been held, some of them in places like New Brighton and other places, ...

That told me that these children did not know me. That is what I concluded there and then because I am not afraid to say that no matter how big the toyi-toyi was here in town, I passed them with a clear conscience because up to this day, I have a clear conscience.

DR MAGWAZA: Good morning, Sir. There are a few more questions to ask. At the time when you joined the group of youths who were toyi-toying, what was happening at that time? Why were they toyi-toying? --- They were chanting slogans about Mandela, and we were singing about the freedom.

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 ...