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HippoExplanation ... There was someone standing next to me I asked him what was going on and he pointed in front of me and said I must look. As I looked there was a Hippo a Casspir turning towards the main street going to Mount Ruth. At the time there was a group of soldiers walking down from people’s houses. ... When I left the house I realised that they had many vans outside and there was also a big Hippo in which I found some of us and I also alighted that Hippo. And then we made jokes, asking one another, where are we being taken to? And then they took us to the cells. I found other people like ... ... come and help me. We dropped everything and went to help Mzayitani in the house. They were dragging him, they wanted him to be in the back of the hippo. Me and Michael stood again, fighting Mzayitani. They grabbed by his hair and they pulled all his hair from his head. They managed to - to ... MS MOYESHA: We were coming from Maduna and we were going to a funeral in Kwanubushle, and we were walking down Maduna Street and there was a hippo opposite my home. We stood there and this hippo was trying to disperse us but we walked UITENHAGE HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE ... would - if they see us talking they would ask what we’re saying. I would say no we must talk because our mouths are not closed. Whiles there the hippo came and they took us into the hippo and because there was no man - no husband at home, I was the only one, so everything would be directed to ... REV MOKWENA: According to the information that I got they said that the policemen came, they blocked the doorway with their Hippo and they got inside the bar. When they got inside the bar they instructed some other children to get inside the Hippo and they started shooting the children. The other ... And they took me into their car - it was a Sierra and I realised that they had two vans and two Sierra cars and a Hippo. The Hippo was parked a street from ours, they drove off with me and they went to arrest another friend of mine - we were doing Std 9 at that time. They also hook him up, they ... ... I think all of us at that time I would imagine, we were in the country. At that time when in Mamelodi a six year/eight year old run down with a Hippo, then in return the reports would be that no, he was stoning the, she will be run down to death by a Hippo armed vehicle, then the reports ... WITNESS: No, I did not. I only noticed that when I got out of the truck that the barracks has been burnt. They sent a hippo into my house. They put me into this hippo and the children were put into the trucks with goods. MS MORETI: It was because of a Hippo. The Hippo was also bringing into the house, that is why the house was destroyed. They took me away and I could see that there were cars parked down and it was a casper, a hippo and some other cars. I went to Vlak to bury him. I carried, we took those boys to Vlak. We wrapped the bones with the white sheet and while I was still at home a Hippo came with soldiers and they took the bones away with them. They never told me anything. The following morning Malabo Sana came in the morning ... MR KINIKINI: My dog was shot. The police shot this dog. We were taken out, it was me and my brother. The police took us out. They loaded us in the hippo. There was a We therefore decided that some Telewenies should go to Osendiswene and wait for them, and they should in fact throw oranges and apples into the hippos because the soldiers normally thought that when you throw something into the hippo, it was a grenade, a hand grenade. When the soldiers came to ... Where is he? I was told that he had been taken and the police wanted to put him in the Hippo and the comrades didn't want to give him over. They wanted to take him to the mortuary themselves, because they felt that the police were not going to take him straight to the mortuary. They left him at ... ... children that I had to take care of. I was assaulted for quite some time, and I kept on pleading for a number of times. And after some time the Hippo stopped and the other one who seemed to be in charge initiated that I be taken to the police station. I felt somehow relieved that I was going ... soldiers. Then we, they asked us as to where we were coming from and I didn't even want to hide, I said okay, we were looking for you. They didn't even wait for us, we were led to the hippo and we arrived at Njanani police station. start manufacturing petrol bombs now and we decided now that when we see any Hippo or any police vehicle, we will fire at it. MS LERUTLA: What I remember is that I heard people talking about that it was the Mayor who told us that. I heard a voice from the Hippo saying that we have to disperse within five minutes. ... you said that you were in the bakkie and you were then shot and left lying there. What actually happened around the bakkie, what happened to the Hippo from which you were shot in those say the two or three hours that you were lying there, did you see anybody else being attacked, ... |