toyi-toyi

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 ...

Speelman arrived at the school after the meeting had finished when the multitude was on its way to the mountain. He then described what happened once they had reached the mountain. The deceased was questioned as to who else was involved in witchcraft. People were running, toyi-toying, chanting ...

MR TYALI: I can support my statement because I never heard the police singing toyi-toyi songs before in the government buildings. I have never seen such behaviour, the behaviour that I witnessed on that particular day, that is why I am saying today that their aim was really to remove Brig Gqozo.

You were saying that it happened on 31st December 1985. Would you like to tell us further? --- Matambomtini arrived at my home in the morning to tell me that Mbulelo was shot and I asked as to where was he shot and where, and who shot him. He said to me, Mbulelo was ... [indistinct] by ... ...

MISS MBOYA: Thank you. In 1992, there was a toyi-toyi here in town. After that, people dispersed and they went to their different homes.

I would be failing in my duty as Shembe's representative if I were not to tell the truth as he would if he were here today. It is quite interesting to listen to other people confessing their sins and we tend to regard ourselves as holier than thou, but time will tell and is already telling ...

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 ...

MR BIKITSHA: On the 16th of July 1987 Matemba and I got up in the morning, Matemba Vuso. I was preparing to come to Highway to have my shoes repaired at the shoemaker. I left him behind cleaning. I went to Highway and I did all that I was supposed to do. On my return, as I was using the main ...

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 ...

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 ...

You take such instances that at one main school here, there was a sports competition and kids were playing. One team in which there were many Black kids won so they started toyi-toying and singing in Sotho, jumping for joy that they won. The principal at the assembly said this school has an ...

MS THABETHE: My next question is, isn't it common cause, Mr Mnyandu, that if there were toyi-toyiing or marches the police would call a person that they know is a comrade to tell the others to disperse or sometimes what they would do they would use a loudspeaker and tell the people to disperse? ...

MS MBIXANA: In 1986, in September, there was a funeral in Avenue A in New Brighton in Port Elizabeth. We used to see him joining the toyi toyi, but on this particular day, we were not aware that he was there. Then I noticed that he was not present, then we said that if he was there, he would of ...

MR HELA: Yes. Because they would be there in the township when we were toyi-toying and singing freedom songs?

MR JWAMBE: It is so, Sir, I was not there. My presence at the place of crime I got there and I was told that these people were being burnt. I tried to stop them. There were a lot of people. People were going up and down, singing, toyi-toyiing. After I realised that I could not stop the killing ...

MR MAKWETU: On this particular day, the 27th, we gathered in the evening and we toyi toyi'd up and town the streets of the area and as we were going down Dowe Street, just when we were at the corner of Nkulu Street, we stood because we saw some objects that looked like Donkeys and yet they

MS FIBANA: My mother was not going to be a State witness. My mother did not attend the toyi-toyi. She phoned my grandmother saying that if she was to be arrested she wouldn't be able to leave us alone at home.

MR KRUSER: The other crowds moved almost consistently in a slow type of march or toyi-toyi as they would call it. This crowd was, as though they were humming up in type of dance at the corner, standing still but they were not moving, they seemed to be constant on the corner, that is my ...

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.

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