toyi-toyi

MS KAMA: In 1985 we were not aware of riots at that time. Lulama Kama did not do anything. There was a meeting of the Councillors at Nyibiba with the residents. There was conflict in that meeting between the Councillors and the residents. On the following week the children were toyi-toying in ...

Even the Comrades don't know where he is? --- I didn't ask them, Sir. According to your daughter who was here in South Africa did she tell you why your son was shot by the police? --- She told me that they were in a mass action toyi-toyiing during the unrest at Odendaal.

MR BHAYI: I'd like to say myself, the role that I was playing even in the community whenever I see people toyi toying, I used to go there and join the toyi toyi because I used to love it and even when they were going to these places no one pulled me along but I just said it to join them.

MR MAHAYIYA: Yes, there were things that she was doing at the time and in the toyi-toyi's she would be seen there toyi-toying.

MR XABA: On the 23rd January 1993 my brother-in-law came, I’m talking here about Gumene, and he said to me that we would have to go to a funeral, a funeral where a certain Khumalo lady was to be buried. I refused because I was not prepared to go there, I had some other things to do. But he came ...

He said that there were no riots, they were just toyi-toying. It was not all the people from the township, it was only a small group because we are two groups in the township. It was only kids. Then the police came, then Flemming shot me. I was actually shot by Flemming, my son said. Then my ...

MR MAHLANGU: It was, they were toyi-toying and singing and after they surrounded her, they started singing louder.

MRS MAPOGO: In 1990, on the 7th of March it was at about past eleven, he was from work. He found these children where they were playing, but there was no fighting. He was from his mother's home to his younger brother's home. When he passed in the direction of our home, he was standing and other ...

CHAIRPERSON: Yes we can assume they were toyi-toyiing, they were coming down the road singing, toyi-toyiing, he obviously heard them so he obviously had an idea of what was coming.

MR SITHOLE: At about 3 a.m. after they had followed the first group to the shack where I directed them to, I heard this toyi toyi outside, up until around five in the morning, since three in the morning. At six I woke up, as I was waking up, it was just before Magwaza appeared and this toyi toyi ...

MR HLONGWANE: And then Zekele then said that the person who was dressed like that must be killed and then we were going down the main road, we were actually toyi-toying doing this low dance from the meeting. As we were coming down the road we passed the Masigani stop and when we arrived there by ...

MR LUMKO: No, they never came to my place, they used to move up and down chanting toyi-toyi songs.

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

MS MAKI: Where we were, there was a toyi-toyi at the taxi rank. We heard shots and I fell and had a blackout. The police, Municipal police, took me and threw me in a police van and went to drop me at the old clinic office.

On the 24th February we received a message that we must go and safeguard a meeting. That was an ANC meeting. It was going to occur at Noshesi area. We took a police van, we went there and at Noshesi. When we arrived there we found supporters of ANC and they were marching and singing, toyi-toyi ...

MR RICHARD: Now, on the mountain, were people singing, toyi-toying?

So they asked me to toyi-toyi and I told them I couldn't. A police by the name of Malunga kicked me and asked me to toyi-toyi, then I told them I wasn't going to.

In the afternoon we went to Masesames School, but I did not get inside, I stood outside, because it was full in the room. So we talked that they were forcing us to be taught in Afrikaans, so we toyi-toyed and I decided to go home.

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

ADV POTGIETER: And it also appears from the statement in our possession that he was never part of the, even part of the toyi-toyi that was going on?