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MR BELLINGAN: There was a campaign to collect signatures coordinated by a number of organisations and prominently the Release Mandela Campaign, the idea was to gather signatures and our objective was to discourage the public from signing this, signing these petitions. So there were various things, ...

MR NDLELA: Between Mandela and Emapupene squatter camp.

... for the Human Rights Committee on Friday. I want to, by way of opening, quote something which was said very recently by President Nelson Mandela. You will know that the Commission was appointed by the President. In a recent speech he said ...

He told the committee that he was informed by Mrs Madikizela-Mandela that Sithole was arrested by the police for the incident. He died in detention.

The most important fact for us was to retrieve the guns because we had been told that when they come back they were going to attack the Mandela Squatter Camp, and because we did not have any arms we decided to go and get those arms that they were using to train them.

MR VISSER: Although it is not alleged here in the application I wish to put it to you, did you have anything to do with an attack of the house of Mrs Winnie Mandela in Brandfort?

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.

The situation was so critical that our now president, Mandela, put out a document to all members of pension and provident funds, reassuring them and I won't go through the document, that an ANC Government will make sure that your money is secure and that you will receive all the benefits you are ...

The person who was the President of ANC, President Mandela and the one who was the Minister of Police, Adriaan Vlok did arrive in a helicopter, arrived at Thokoza at the time. As a people who were active, we accompanied them in police vehicles, touring the area so that they would see for ...

... he worked in Johannesburg and he worked for ACP. Now in your statement you tell us that he was also a contemporary of our present President Nelson Mandela and other individuals and he was involved with the ANC. Can you just tell us something about ...

MR NDOU: Is that the same date on which the former president Mandela was released?

MR SIBEKO: Now, you have a few incidences which you have - some of the applicants have already testified about. If I'm not mistaken it's Mandela, Mandela Section, 1994, and you were also involved in that incident?

I mean, there was no idea that we would physically go into Pollsmoor prison and break Mr Mandela out. But the understanding was to tell this Government - and to show it also to the people inside, and outside South Africa that we believed that Mr Mandela was our true leader. There was also a ...

... yet again of expressing our appreciation as a Commission for the crucial contribution that you made to democracy in South Africa. President Mandela quoted in the Sunday Independent of April the 27th, was quite right when he ...

MR LAMEY: Can you recall at that stage, if you knew of any connection between him and Mrs Winnie Mandela?

... again in 1952 during the defiance campaign. During the defiance campaign he was chief volunteer officer for the defiance campaign whilst Nelson Mandela was commander of the defiance campaign. ...

MR VAN HEERDEN: Back to Mrs Winnie Madikizela.

Because of the imminent election in 1994, I informed President Mandela as soon as possible of the background. After the inauguration on 10 May 1994 the President and Deputy President Mbeki were fully briefed in my presence. At least one follow-up briefing took place, at which Minister Dullah ...

CHAIRPERSON: Please just tell me something, these photographs in the album, those eight thousand faces in the photograph album, was Mr Mandela's photograph in that book?

They were not looking for Vincent only, they were looking also for my sister. They were asking me about my sister. They harassed me. In 1992 when Mandela was released I thought maybe I would see my son coming back from exile only to find out he is not coming back. I was asking, trying to ...