Buffel

MR SMITH: No, I'm ... When these grenades are fired, is there a lot of noise from the launcher? Would there be a lot of noise inside the Buffel if you fire these grenades from inside the Buffel?

MR DA SILVA: I put it to you that you are mistaken, and that all you saw was a single solitary buffel on Frikkie Meyer Boulevard?

This Mr Geldenhuys saw an SADF Buffel drive along Nobel Boulevard from east to west, in other words from Slovo Park towards kwaMadala hostel, before he heard any shots being fired from Boipatong. He says that after the first shot, the Buffel rode back towards Cape Gate and thereafter, says Mr ...

Reginald Buffel. --- Yes.

... were playing as kids in front of our home with some of the friends that I had. By then they called it, actually, a Caspar, it is, actually, now a Buffel. There were soldiers inside that Buffel who came, actually, passing by and it immediately, actually, halted in front of us. Because of the ...

When they arrived at the roadblock, they stopped there, Ralo and Mguzulwa got out of their car, crossed the road towards Rifleman Xotyeni who was in a buffel.

MR MKOSANA: An armoured vehicle, yes a buffel armoured car.

... in February I went back to Oshakati and back to the Hospital and one Wednesday evening a helicopter came in with four patients who had been in a Buffel that had driven over a double landmine. The landmine had blown a core through the middle of the diesel tanks of the Buffel and sprayed ...

... R4 rifles. By the time that you made this affidavit, you knew that that was incorrect. Gonya had fired the rocket or the grenade launcher in the Buffel that you were travelling, or from that Buffel that you were travelling ...

... patrol with SADF units, wearing and living under SADF structure and rules, driving next to what looks like a perfectly useful road, strapped into a Buffel all day, wearing a metal helmet etcetera, etcetera, one would be passed by by Casspirs full of jovial people sitting on top of roofs drinking ...

32 4 Dec 1985 Driver of minibus wounded, captured and handed over to Police after he threw a grenade at SA Army Buffel vehicle in Wit Command area

MR DA SILVA: Okay and then I want to put it to you, Mr Baloyi, that the Vaal Commando used their armoured vehicles. There's a vehicle called the "Buffel" and it's brown in colour. Can you give any comment in that regard?

... because who else wears shoes. We'd interrogate him and ifhe was stubborn he could have some trouble, maybe we would tiehim to the front of the Buffel and do a little bundu bashing. Feel it? Why should I feel it, I wasn't on the front of theBuffel. Sometimes they shout and shout and ...

... corner of Frikkie Meyer Boulevard and Nobel Boulevard, that is where that Trek garage was, we know that that - I believe it is either a caspir or a buffel, was stationed there as you were making your way back to kwaMadala. Are you saying that you never saw that ...

... like me, particularly people who were in Koevoet, but anyother special forces members any conscriptees, anyone who evenif you just put petrol in a Buffel and feel bad about it, comeforward and tell your story. It doesn't matter that the amnestydate is over, what isn't over is the whole process ...

... with the lights, there next to the border post, which we have already mentioned. Photo 21B shows a military vehicle, I think you would call it a ...

??/02/86 SADF personnel: Gugulethu Buffel attacked with grenade; four SADF injured slightly

MR VISSER: And you have also confirmed as it was put to you, that there was a warning system, a whistle system. As soon as a policeman or a casspir or a buffel had entered into a black area, whistles were blown and the whole area would know.

MR LAX: I just want just clarify this, did I hear you correctly that the only time you saw this Defence Force vehicle, what you referred to as a "buffel", was when you were on the foot-bridge coming back?