toyi-toyi

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 ...

and that was a consistent theme, as Mr Roshalt mentioned, and as we found in our delegations to government. Now, practically speaking, you know, what practically, other than constructive engagement, can a business organisation, such as a Chamber of Commerce, actually do? Do we toyi-toyi out in ...

They went back to the meeting where they gave a report-back. Immediately the crowed decided that petrol be acquired to burn witches in the village. At that stage no names had been mentioned by any person from the crowd. Worst of all, Taledi had not mentioned any names of the so-called witches. ...

MR VISSER: Chairperson, the authority which we speak about is precisely the fact of his authority of being a policeman. In the example which you mentioned to me, clearly that person is not going to obtain amnesty because on those facts it is so clear that he did not act with a political motive ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Velisile Lopy Toyi will be testifying about an atemped murder on himself in 1985 in Grahamstown.

What are your wishes? --- I wish that they could repent from their sins of the past. I want them to turn over new leaves and change their lifestyles as well as their ideologies. I feel terrible about the fact that my children have been affected by this aftermath, because they still suffer ...

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.

MR MADUNA: I was from Radebe and I was going to Mafimela, at home, I had an AK-47 with me. I saw many comrades and they were toyi toying, they were singing, and I joined them. There was a van, and in that van there was a RPG 7, fireguns were just fired between Tokoza and Myala. We went across ...

We were asked why did we not use crowd control measure as standard practice. If the marchers would have moved as a crowd, singing, toyi-toying, chanting, towards our lines, we would have been able to stick to proper crowd control measure but that was not the case. When our soldiers, my soldiers, ...

So then we started having a conflict. When this conflict started the WARSA people, in fact, the FAWU people started toyi-toying. We went to the toyi-toyi and the WORSA people went to fetch people at Thokoza, Vosloorus and arrived and they took them to Escort bacon factory and they put them on ...

MR SANDI: Was there any march or a toyi-toyi that was taking place in your surroundings?

SPEAKER 4: I think here we’ll come with a problem because now in South Africa people are pinpointing each other, saying that you benefited and you didn’t benefit. According to my experience no - all the South Africans suffered during the apartheid system. Even those who never toyi- toyied or ...

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