toyi-toyi

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 ...

MISS NGAKANE: There is this that I want to say. We can’t really say anything to them because when we conducted the funeral on that day, they were all around the township, at every corner singing and toyi-toyiing.

Therefore they would be directly responsible in cases like toyi-toyi and political activity. Therefore they needed people who could carry out this mission properly. Therefore our mission was to infiltrate the SAP as Special Constables, so that we could attack the ANC as Special Constables in ...

MT MBEWANA: Early the following day there were people who were toyi-toying from the other direction.

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.

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

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

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 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, ...