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Welcome back. At the end of last week’s special hearing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela spoke about her concern for the soldiers who fought on both sides of the apartheid struggle. She specifically referred to the soldiers who fought the white government’s war in neigbouring states. Earlier this year ...

Lolo Sono was the next victim. His father says the last time he saw his son alive was in a kombi with Madikizela-Mandela. He was badly beaten up. // I pleaded with her until she said to me I’m taking this dog away. The movement will see what to do. That was the last time I saw my son Lolo in the ...

... the record, I must state an emphatic denial that the TRC organised this particular hearing to coincide with any political gathering. I remind Mrs. Mandela, your client that she asked for a public hearing, we didn’t. We actually asked for a section 29 which is in camera. Mrs. Mandela asked for ...

After six months in prison, the commander came and said I should dress, as they wanted to see me. I didn’t know if they were going to free me, to kill me or hand me to Winnie. I didn’t know.

... us up and we were thrown to the ground. After some time they started hitting us with sjamboks. // Who started hitting you with sjamboks? // Mrs. Mandela started hitting me with a sjambok. We were lying down. // Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela has said that on the day in question she was in Brandfort. ...

The football club rarely kicked a ball. A law onto itself, it ruled amid the anarchy of the time. Winnie presided as it made arrests, interrogated people and dispensed street justice.

Inside the kombi there was my boy Lolo. He’s being held by two boys. He was badly beaten; his face was bruised up and I spoke to Winnie concerning what happened. She told me Lolo was a spy.

When she orders you, you do it. Winnie had that strong African medicine. You can’t look her in the eyes. When you talk with her, you need to put your head down. You know, you feel scared, she is strong. Everybody’s afraid of her.

... of victims from the KwaZulu-Natal violence and the mother of child activist Stompie Seipei - implicating the Mandela United Football Club and Winnie Mandela in Seipei?s abduction, torture and eventual death. Other segments include the hit squad assassination of Newcastle community leader, ...

... was all over the newspapers and so forth – whether information was passed over to the security branch relating to telephone conversations by Mrs. Mandela at her house at the end of December 1988 and the beginning of January 1989. // On those specific days she alleged that she was at Brandfort ...

... to Mrs. Seipei for my part in that. // The other person about whom you requested an opportunity to express your feelings is Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela. // I don’t know Mrs. Mandela really. We’ve met face to face briefly in my mission house once. And my feelings about you have taken me in ...

... We have never and will never treat violations differently because a particular individual has been implicated. The allegations against Madikizela-Mandela are serious, especially because it involves the vicious assaults on young boys, and even murder. The parents of Stompie Seipei and Lolo Sono ...

... has beaten him up and crushed him against the wall. // And did Lolo speak to you? // When Lolo tried to speak he was told to shut up by Mrs. Mandela. // Now tell Mr. Sono what did Mrs. Mandela say? // Mrs. Mandela explained to me that Lolo is a spy, so I tried to plead with her. What she ...

The football club’s driver, John Morgan was given an order by Winnie. // She said look you better drive that red Toyota car out. Then I asked her, to do what with it. She said to take that body of that dog, go and dump it away. I said I’m not going to do that.

This charge against Paul Verryn seems to have been the trigger for the assaults and murders. Xoliswa Falati was the housekeeper in Paul Verryn’s household and helped to abduct the boys after Cebekhulu told her that he had been raped. They were taken to Winnie Mandela’s house.

So was Katiza Cebekhulu consigned to oblivion because he would no longer play Winnie Mandela’s game? Winnie’s hold over ordinary people was awesome, but her protection may have gone far higher than the mere foot soldiers as both President Juluba and Emma Nicholson found out.

... next to the door. So Jerry said to the driver of the minibus, Morgan should go and fetch a seat for Mami. So then Morgan went to fetch a seat. Then Winnie came in and she started asking us, why are you sleeping with a white reverend? And why is Stompie an informer. Then that’s when she starting ...

Anybody who is victimized because of his commitment to the struggle is a source of inspiration to us. Especially when it is a white person who belongs to a privileged group who decides to abandon those pleasures and identify himself with the struggle of the oppressed. That has always been a source ...

That is ridiculous.

... just bring this note here? Can you please leave? // Then National Police Commissioner, George Fivaz took the stand. Fivaz was questioned as to why Winnie has not been prosecuted in the Sono, Tshabalala, Seipei and Asvat affairs. He said that up to now there has been insufficient evidence to ...