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"President Nelson Mandela emphasised that the 1991 National Conference of the ANC, where MK can it must of course make it's expertise available to those communities that are engaged in a process of establishing Self-Defence Units."

... On the night of the vigil they said there shouldn't be a prayer and they said people must just go to their homes, there must be nobody here. Mama Winnie tell them the police that there will be no such a thing, they cannot expect people to go away. People are going to come to the night vigil ...

MR DE KOCK: Yes, actually on the contrary, if I don't have it incorrectly, it goes back as far as 1986, when Kobie Coetzee went to speak to Mr Mandela for the first time on Robben Island. And that was the first occasion upon which I noticed that the winds were about to change.

... it's true that we were the members of the ANC but some of them had been taken away. When I looked, I realised that they were also suspecting Mr Mandela. He first got a five year warning, he was well known, because they met and they said these two organisations want to unite and they want to ...

ADV BOSMAN: Do you know on what date or what year the present President of the country was released from prison? When was Mr Nelson Mandela released?

MR MOKOENA: I cannot tell specifically in which year did we go to the rally, but I think Mandela was present at that rally.

MR LEBOTSO: Yes, I woke up then I was - on my way I was falling on the ground. After passing Mandela Drive, I met my cousin and he helped me. Me met with another two ladies who were crying. They helped me to go home.

anything about an agreement with Colonel Potgieter that he would be taken to Vlakplaas where he would be kept available to give evidence against Mrs Mandela? Did he say anything in that ...

MR MAPOMA: For the record, the Matsonyuane Commission was an independent commission appointed by President of the ANC, Mr Mandela, then in 1993 inside South Africa.

anything about an agreement with Colonel Potgieter that he would be taken to Vlakplaas where he would be kept available to give evidence against Mrs Mandela? Did he say anything in that ...

MR MYBURGH: Yes. I had a special task and other members were also tasked, I don't know who they were, in order to eliminate head figures, for example Nelson Mandela during that period, to eliminate him.

... he shouted at me why don't I call my God to release me from the chair, and that I would see that they, the Security Branch, they are God, that not Mandela, not Treurnicht, Terre'Blanche or de Klerk ran this country, but that they ran the country. I could not speak, my mouth was very dry, my ...

Since 1985 we never heard that the case had been taken to court. We just got a short letter from an attorney Ebrahim, from Athlone, around August or September 1989. We were then staying in Mandela Park. The address that you have on your records at the moment.

... they said to me I can go home. I wanted to know as to who will help me with my medical bill because my teeth were loose. They said I must go to Mandela. Then I didn't know what to say to them. ...

MR KHANYILE: I believe sir when you refer to higher leaders, I think you know that for Mr Mandela, the President to meet Chief Buthelezi, took a long time. I don't know which people could have met during those times as leaders of the organisations.

MS SALOJEE: I was in touch with the Mandela's, I was in touch with the Sisulu's and quite a few Whites, Sheila Weinberg and Ilza and them. I knew 99% of the people that was involved in politics, Black, White and Indian.

when Mandela was released. I don't know where he got the money, bought a house in Randburg. His wife was a Social Worker. What the cause of committing suicide if I use my own assumptions, he used to quarrel with his wife every time, that is the information that I got.

DR BARNARD: Chairperson, the events that you have explained, do you know where this led the NIS? It led to the commencement of discussions with Mr Nelson Mandela who was in prison, these discussions eventually led to the elections in 1994 and NIS played a prominent role in this.

we would need to emphasise this now and again, that the duty of the Commission is to make recommendations to the President of the country, President ...

... And we also listened to all your requests and wishes. What we can say at the moment is that we will take all this to our leader, the President Mandela himself. We cannot make much promises, but we'll see later what's going to ...