Hippo

... was spotted by the police officers, and they suspected something and in fact, Baseka was told not to do anything, and he jumped when he saw the hippo. All of you guys who were in that motor vehicle, escaped, but unfortunately, apparently one of you was arrested, my instructions are not clear ...

... of taking me to the hospital they took me to Houtkop police station and they threw me on the floor and my mother arrived because she drove in a hippo. And she said to them I thought you were taking my son to the hospital. I don't know what happened but when I regained conscious I was at the ...

that there's a Hippo and I would be whisked out. They would be waiting for me and when they tried to fight me I would fight back. They wanted to fight me and I used to fight. I fought for the ANC. I am not sorry that my son has died. He has died for the world that was won by Mandela for ...

... time being in the bush, you know, you come across a serious fight. So Strongman was able to take out the MGM from the Casspir, you know, from the Hippo and jump outside and fire effectively up to ...(indistinct) where he could stabilise the enemy and Mr Coetzee, when he saw him carrying that ...

... home because the boys are now around the school to strike. And we took different directions to go home. And when I approached the corner I saw a Hippo and a gun was pointed at me and they shot me with this pellet gun and I was ...

Another witness tells how she's heard about her teenage son. How he'd been in the street with friends when a passing Hippo shot him, no sense to it, no reason. Then they collect him, she said, still alive and batter his head against a rock. Twenty years later, tall and high pitched, she spits ...

The policemen parked their hippo's next to the office and walked to the location. Then my son as he was running towards a certain house, which is near our home, they closed him out.

MS MANZIYA: Yes, the hippo came from the direction of the town and administered teargas, pushing them towards the direction of the Ama-Afrika, so that they were not in a position to run away, that is when the Ama-Afrika got an opportunity to hack and attack them.

My family put on the alert, they searched the house. There was a case of beer and one bottle of liquor in the house, which I gave to the soldiers. They left in the morning in the Hippo. I was trying to hold them back, so that everybody will see them when they leave in the morning.

MR GILBERT: On the 22nd of July 1985 a hippo came to our house, there was a shack at the back of my house, two policemen came to my yard, I was sitting on my veranda and they walked to the children at the backyard. They went to the closed shack and asked who stayed there and the deceased answered ...

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.

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-, ...

... they brought along white soldiers asking me are these the people who shot your child? We said, we do not know because they shot from inside the Hippo. I do not remember the names of that person who, Meintjies, they referred to him as Meintjies and he said I shot in, I fired in the air. Then ...

couldn't touch the floor, and then he was thrown into the back of the hippo.

... when I got here - as we were coming through the gate we - then there were a lot of old cars - when I got home - as I walked inside, there was a Hippo driven by police that was driving past my house, but they threw tear gas into my house as they drove past. I did not sleep at home that night, ...

... 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 ...

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.