Hippo

MRS TYUKU: Yes, when he was going out a Hippo passed in that house. When I looked through the window I saw that there were police in that Hippo.

MR OBOSE: Why did you have to go with a Hippo to check Comm Nqoya?

MN NUKANI: Yes, they were looking for Nkosana. We were not happy because the hippo's would drive round our home, they would come and search our home, they would put light on QUEENSTOWN HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE

MRS MBALULA: The children were quite involved in the struggle. The one time they burnt down the car from the Municipality. After a week a hippo came.

DR RANDERA: Can you please tell us what was happening at the township at the time? Why were there Hippo's in the streets?

... of her son, who was killed in Zimbabwe; Rose-Mary Tshabalala, who is coming to testify in the case of her brother Emmanual, who was run over by a Hippo. We have here Sikhumbuze Zwane, who has come here to testify on behalf of her uncle. We have Tiny Mokgoshi Matlakala, who is going to testify ...

... It was on Saturday in 1980. People went to the funeral and these boys after the funeral went home, and thereafter late afternoon that day the hippo were all over the township. I sent my boy to the shop at that time to go and buy paraffin. After a while he did not come back. I heard seven ...

... him at a place between Section C and Section W. Now, whilewe were passing a place called Simpowani - it was past seven to six, and thenwe heard a Hippo coming behind. And we did not run because we knew we were innocentbecause we only had this person in our company, we wanted to take him to ...

"When we got out of the hostel onto the road, we were picked up by a police Casspir driven by a white man whose name I don't know. In the hippo there was Shaga of the security branch; a white policeman known to me as Rooikop who had red hair; Peens and our driver. There were 14 or 15 IFP ...

and we ran for cover until we reached my home. It was at about half past six. I think it was now getting dark. When I approached my house I saw a Hippo parking at my gate, and children were assaulted. There were some of the comrades who were guarding me every night because of the attacks that ...

... school. They were also in the company of policemen who were running in front. While all this was happening I was sitting at home and I saw three Hippo cars approaching my house and their was also a red car in front. They stopped in front of my gate and one of them by the name of Stekum. ...

... because two people came and they held me and they said "Your name is Mpompi", then I said "No, I am not Mpompi", then they asked me to get into a hippo - and these were soldiers - and whilst in that hippo they were talking and I could see that they were talking and I said to them, they are ...

At that time, I think it was about eleven to twelve, We went back to town and I say a Casspir near the hall. And I saw someone on top of the Hippo and I could recognise that person. It was Solani. And he was in the Casspir with the sjambok around his neck. They were assaulting him with the ...

MR PRIOR: You also encountered a police hippo vehicle. You say you ordered that it should not be shot at because the gunfire noise would give an indication to other pursuers of which direction in which you had retreated? Is that correct?

There he is, he is in a hippo. I've never been into a hippo, it was only Xosilo who used it when he was going to my place. I remember one of the freedom fighters at Walmer, well-known freedom fighters from the Black Consciousness Movement, got the same problem. Moqitweqisan, we were surprised ...

... officers of these patrolling companies and I said to them in 1990 one Springbok officer was captured in Katlehong. He was boarding off from the Hippo trying to arrest the comrades and we then met and the decision was to go and arrest these Springbok officers. We were given orders to shoot ...

... the people who were staying in the location, they were holding stones, trying to defend themselves against the Inkatha people. After that I saw a Hippo, and it was followed by a bus, and as I was walking, talking to one of the boys who was standing on the road, I heard the sound of a gun. When ...

... them while they were singing. Yes, I joined them and I started singing along with them. A police Casspir approached from the west. That was a Hippo. It was approaching from a direction just not far from where we were, and a second Hippo approached and it came straight to us because we were ...

MS KAMA: We as the family, we are waiting for people to come home, the hippo came together with the Councillors' cars. The police were also there. The car was in front of the hippo. They then shot at us while we were in our yard.

I ran to tell my mother who was walking, following Lungelwa. When the policeman could not find her, they hippo drove towards the New Brighton, they took her out and they burnt her.