Hippo

... was at home. She heard people outside. When she was going to see what was happening she met the police. The police took her, forced her into a hippo and they took her to the bushes in Mission. Two police were left with her. The two policemen raped her and then they left her in that area. ...

... there used to be a lot of casspirs and some other times we would be taken randomly so I was also picked up by the policemen. They put me into the hippo and they drove me to Poswa. I joined other people there and these people were standing outside. We were arrested and we were charged for ...

Two hundred Inkatha men were recruited by M Z Khumalo. The 200 were taken to the Caprivi Strip in Namibia where they received training at Hippo Camp by the Special Operations component of Military Intelligence and Special Forces. The recruits were divided into operational groups, one of which was ...

MR STRYDOM: On the night of the attack, did you see any vehicle - if I can rephrase, so-called Hippo vehicle picking up people and taking them into Boipatong?

When we got to the police station and reported that this is what happened, Vuyo ran away and it is, we were being chased, they wanted to burn us and a hippo came out and Temba followed it.

MR TWALA: Yes, it's possible the police found the firearms on the very same day, but when we were arrested some of us were taken into a minibus and others were taken into a hippo. I only saw the firearms in Court, during the prosecution of the trial.

Then the police decided that they were going to take everything in their hands. They arrived on the Wednesday before the funeral. Upon their arrival, people were more than the limited number that was given. They got into the house. They were driving the Hippo's.

MR NZIMA: Yes they were prepared to deal with this march, because that was my first time to see the casper which we called a hippo. We did not know when did they get this big vehicle to come and shoot at the students at that time. It was immediately after Hector Petersen was shot down, we saw a ...

... happened to me. In 1986 I was going to shop, it was 7 o'clock in the evening. When I arrived at the shop I met a policeman, he was driving a Hippo. I was taken to hospital because I don't know, I can't recall what actually happened to me. One guy came to my house and told me that David ...

And then he went away, then we kept the women company. then a hippo came, they took the Headmen to go and look for the people who had burnt the house down.

amnesty application, he was instructed to go to the Caprivi strip to provide training to 200 Inkatha recruits who was being housed at a place called Hippo Base in the Caprivi strip and his job there was to train them inter alia in the use of Eastern Block weapons, rocket propelled grenades, hand-, ...

... police, because the others were wearing some camouflage uniforms and the others were using SAP uniforms. They would just come in police casspirs, hippo that is, or two of them. They wouldn't ask questions, they would just start firing at ...

MR LEWIN: Thank you and could you tell us a little bit, you mention the first time the police arrived with the Hippo. You mentioned a name Titing Masango. Do you know what happened to him later?

the firearms they were having. I was assaulted on that day, and I was made to lie on my stomach very close to the Hippo, joining others who were already arrested.

Late 1983, my unit was transferred back to Lusaka. Maybe because the river animals failed to destroy us. I say this because after we left, another unit replaced us and I am made to understand that a hippo overturned their dinghy and nine of them perished. God bless them also.

There was a shop at Ntwanye which was owned by Maliefatle Poele. The Hippo came there and then destroyed that building. The main objective of destroying that Poele's building, there was a graffiti written on the shop which was written "Viva ANC, Viva MK". It was surprising as whether those would ...

We didn’t know what they were - they - what they were looking for, but anyway during that time it was a usual sight to see a hippo in the townships. When I came back from work at the usual time, I saw my wife was quite anxious. And this one, my son was sleeping at his usual place.

I think the police arrived at about four in the afternoon. There was a hippo of the Stability Unit that came in in a red bakkie and the white bakkie and a white kombi. They arrived at the scene of crime. About six they took the body with and I was at home then. And later on at night I fled and ...

On the third day I saw a hippo which was just next to my house. When I confronted them, they informed, they asked me if Xoliswa is mine, I said that it was my daughter who was 11 years old. He said I must go to Mount Road so that I can identify the body.

The old ones instructed the young ones to go home and truly speaking they actually anticipated that policemen were coming and really policemen came to the school in vans and hippo's.