comrades

... the young medical student was found dead in his cell. The news of Biko’s death in detention shocked the world. Some of his closest friends and comrades remembered their deep sense of loss when they found out that he’d died in ...

In George, the local ANC is getting ready for their day of showing their anger and protest. // Comrades, if we were to put down all the crimes of PW Botha, this wall is too small. We left out Ashley Kriel, we left out District Six, we left out Sophiatown; we left out Cato Manor. We left out so many ...

... including one in London and the killing of more than 40 people. According to this list at least three policemen were killed by their own comrades. A whole list of other explosions are also mentioned: Khotso House, Joubert Park, JG Strydom hospital, a community centre in Cape Town and ...

Or those still haunted by the horror of a death at the hands not of the enemy, but comrades. The smoke of the necklace or the shining panga still sticking through their dreams.

four special constables and myself. // Who gave you the instruction to kill? Was that Major Terreblanche? // Yes the orders came from him that these comrades must be taken out. The whole operation went wrong, where the wrong people became ...

... The first person they met was Philip Matela who is now asking for amnesty for their murder. // They said to me they were looking for the ANC comrades and we knew that the right wingers and the Russian vigilante group were going to attack people in the ...

By the 15th of June, 1986 many of the experienced activists were in detention or in the underground. But across the valley a group of young comrades had gathered on a hill to prepare for the next day’s June 16 commemoration. Again the enemy came in the night. When they had finished their job six ...

... vigilante wit doek and police activity designed to flush out progressives as well as affect the state’s removals, led to open warfare between the comrades and ”fathers.” The result: Many homes burnt down, 50 000 homeless, countless deaths. Lenox Maphalane was on his way home to his mother ...

Mrs. Mandela said I should take the minibus and go fetch those boys from the Methodist centre and I went to Winnie to find out if she had really said that. And I took the bus, after she said yes, with the other comrades.

Steve Nkwenya, an attorney at the time, represented many members of the then Wesselton Action Committee and so-called comrades who were defending their community.

turned to work for the state during his imprisonment. By 1986 Ngxobongwana was the main witdoek leader in Crossroads, now working against his former Comrades. Their conflict came to a head when the state decided to upgrade Crossroads. This meant that the squatter camps had to be cleared and their ...

a Standard five pupil in Vryburg, and by all accounts a dedicated UDF and youth activist in Huhudi until she was named an impimpi, informer, and her comrades dealt with her. Frieda’s grandmother, mother, sister have only begun dealing with the pain of her brutal ...

... We were merely lying there. All of us. Trying to defend Mrs Mandela. I actually wanted to report the matter to the police but I thought Winnie’s comrades were going to crush me or kill me. So I decided not to say anything, just keep my gap ...

... unit in Botshabelo and executed their first and last operation at Wesselsdal farm. // When we arrived there I knocked at the door together with my comrades and a white lady came, that is the wife of Mr. Smith. We asked her where was her husband. We are there to request petrol. We didn’t wait ...

… other victims in the area, Mr. Fanyana Sibanyoni, lost his son, Jabulani Sibanyoni, leader of the comrades at the time who was fatally shot after a funeral of one of the young fighters of Wesselton township.

But once the comrades left the relative safety of the hills the realities of the deepening political conflict of the time closed in around them. Kabasa’s terror often came in the dark. // Round about half past two in the morning we were awaken by a huge sound, a huge bang, and when I woke up with ...

... it and let the horse into the city walls. Once inside, Greek warriors climbed out of the belly of the horse and opened the city gates to their comrades, who then destroyed Troy. This is why the incident in October 1985 in Athlone was called the Trojan Horse ...

The six day war expelled the police from Alex. Black policemen were seen as siding with the oppressor, and they were no longer welcome in the community. Comrades and people’s courts took over the keeping of law and order. // But in April the police came back to wreak havoc. //

The unspoken found a faltering voice: necklacing, the shame of the comrades. Mbulelo Dulato was burned to death for breaking a consumer boycott in Colesburg in 1985. // Can you tell us what you saw what happened? // She was on her way to work, young men approached her. There were five. When they ...

Although the comrades were no match for the gang, retaliation was on the cards. // I think the community realised that this was only a few people. At least if we faced the police then it’s better than facing many people who are coming from different sides. They decided this people should go, and ...