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comradesExplanation After some time it was quiet and I then went back again. When I went back after some time, when I arrived, Johannes Selai was arrested by the comrades and they were asking him questions, beating him up, saying that he was an informer because he was with the people from the other side and at the ... MS MKHIZE: When I say how did he live, is what kind of a child, when he wakes up early in the morning where did he go? Others are going to school, others are going to work, what was he doing? Was he together with the comrades? Was he befriending the comrades? I have said, I said on the 12th June 1986 and therefore those (indistinct) stopped us and then the questions they asked us they said they wanted the comrades who burnt down their shops. We said we don't know nothing about that because we said we want to negotiate with them. They failed. They ... ... the funeral of Mr Zazi Khuzwayo. When we came back from this funeral we didn't sleep. We were phoned many a time and we were called that we were comrades, because we had gone to that funeral - we had gone to the chief of the comrades' funeral and until I told my mother-in-law. My ... ... he was an active supporter of the IFP, was seated at the bar. Jabulani Radebe's son came into the bar with a spear and a home-made firearm. The comrades who were sitting with you caught hold of Jabulani Radebe's son and disarmed him of the home-made firearm. They assaulted him and stabbed ... MR MAZIBUKO: There was a fight between myself and fellow comrades. MR MHLONGO: No, we've been comrades since 1989 in the area of Tsakane. MR BERGER: How did you assist the comrades in Botswana? ... Maputo through to Mozambique and I stayed in Matola, ever since my arrival there at that place I was responsible for reading the news for the comrades in our houses there and in our camps in Angola. After that I worked with the Right of Freedom, also as a commentator and a news ... ... was a heavy deployment by both the SAP and SADF. They also deployed, that is the SA security forces in the ravine bordering King Williamstown. Comrades will remember if you go on the route to King Williamstown on the left there is a ravine that goes down there with bushes and there were ... ... or something about the operation in Transkei before you left. That's what I'm driving at because your previous activities was simply to drive comrades around the country side not to kill people. So my question is - were you told, if you say you came across the Kei to kill whites in the ... MR BOOYENS:: You have testified against your erstwhile Comrades, and gave testimony to the best of your ability to get them into jail for as long as possible. Is that right? ... submission or statement. I think it is, it was on the second or the third or fourth, we were from a funeral in Kanana, after burying three or four Comrades with whom we were in the struggle with. We went to the funeral by taxis. On our way back from that funeral, there was also a funeral at ... ... that the name of Chris Hani, because he is not there to answer for himself, should be used to support the amnesty applications. According to our comrades in Port Elizabeth, the motive for the incident in ...(indistinct) was armed robbery and not political at all. We have unfortunately not ... MR MSANI: They did not see eye to eye with our organisation and they would attack and kill our comrades. MS TANZER: What was the relationship - how was the relationship between your comrades of Boipatong and the residents of Slovo Park, were they also protecting Slovo Park? MR TEKANE: Well I did get in touch with my comrades from the movement. I was reluctant to apply to some extent, that is why I applied so late, just before the deadline and they advised me to apply. "Upon my arrival in Cape Town I immediately contacted comrades and fellow members of the African National Congress." approached by the comrades element, the activists, to assist them with training abroad. MR SCHOON: As instructed by the senior comrades, we in fact wrote a letter of introduction to Mr Williamson for a senior person in SACTU. I can't remember if it was to John Motswane or to Ray Alexander. |