comrades

On 21 February 1993, there was an unrest situation in the township. At about 6am the applicant was summonsed by other "comrades" (fellow members or supporters of the ANCYL) to join a group which was searching for PAC weapons. He did so and they went to the house of a Mr Bigsana, number 1504. ...

... spy and they also tried to sabotage me by taking photographs which they claimed they will use to blackmail me for accepting a bribe to implicate my ...

... the mother of the deceased has problems with are that (a) if her son was either an askari or a political troublemaker, why then was he given a comrades funeral by activists on his funeral, (b) if the applicants were convicted of kidnapping and not murder and now applies for amnesty for ...

After considering the matter, the Committee is satisfied that the applicant and his comrades acted with a political objective as required in the Act. He further appears to have given a full disclosure and has complied with the formal requirements of the Act. He is therefore GRANTED amnesty for ...

... because I was a student at that time and I was their informer and I was exposed as an informer and I could not stay in the areas where my fellow comrades would be aware of. The alternative was for them to hide me there at Mr Venter's house and I could understand their reason because I was ...

... should be aware that the decision should be in writing and it would be done as soon as possible in respect of what it did and it goes for all your comrades as well. Mr Mbandazayo, we do reserve this one. You would be informed in due course just to be on the safe ...

REVD XUNDU: And there was a quarrel between himself and you said in your statement, between himself and comrades. What was the cause of this?

MR KOTA: I think she died five days after that. It was after comrades went to visit her and members of the organisation.

... have victims, people who died in the struggle and eventual reconciliation can only come about if these people are also honoured together with the comrades who were honoured by means of a play ...

MR MATHEBE: At that time, we received a message from the members of our community that there is somebody called Mishi who usually comes and abducts comrades. He was working in cahoots with the police and they explained or described him to us and then we decided that we should go and fetch him. ...

MR NGCOBO: There were some of our comrades from the Mpangalo, people such as Mr Bernard Mkhize.

... testified that on the morning of the 1st August after Jeff 's house had been burnt he together with Kani went to help. They found other comrades there. They cleaned up until about 3 o'clock He said there were youths singing up and down past Jeff Lingani’s ...

... he stayed behind to look after the police vehicle. The applicant confirmed the robbery but said that the policeman fled when he and his fellow comrades confronted them. They left the shotgun in the Police vehicle where he and Charles found the gun and Charles took it. They then went to ...

MR BERGER: What do you say about an allegation that one of your comrades shot at an army vehicle?

MR NGCOBO: I gave them to the other comrades who did not have firearms so that we could protect ourselves.

MR FRANCIS: And we also know that at that stage I think Winnie Mandela was being isolated by her own comrades, it was just shortly after the Stompie Sepei trial?

Policemen in the building returned fire. The 1st Applicant and his two comrades then ran to the vehicle in which the 3rd Applicant was waiting for them. They got to the vehicle without incident and drove away.

... that had been used on him and the feat that had been instilled into him, he agreed to accompany them that night and point out houses of some of his ...

They could not find him. On Monday they went back again, they could not find him. On Tuesday they did find him in the mortuary. Here at home the comrades kept coming asking how things were going. When we tried to explain to them they were of assistance to us. They helped us about things that ...

Comrades and friends, that brings us to the end of the hearing here today. We were as you've heard me say several times today that we were expecting some people from Driefontein, for a number of reasons they're not able to come here today.