Hippo

I think it was towards dawn, whilst my house was burning, the people in the Hippo called me. They put me into the Hippo and asked if there are other people inside the house, the burning house. I said yes, there are. They said who. I said it is my kids. At that time I had forgotten that the ...

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.

The next day at one o'clock in the night a Hippo stopped outside. Many police were inside the Hippo. They got out and they surrounded my house. I was peeping through the window. Some of them lied on the grass and they pointed their long guns at my house. Some of them knocked at the door, I ...

MR MNYAKENI: Thereafter we were told that a hippo was approached, and we fled to our shacks.

... on patrolling, and at that time we saw a caspar from which they threw tear gas canisters and even shot at us. We ran into the nearby yards and the hippo or the caspar went away. Thereafter we saw a brown combi, the one that was mentioned before, and the caspar came back without the brown toyota ...

... in December 1985 (he was 16 years of age) whilst moving with two of his friends who managed to escape. He was beaten up and thrown in to the hippo by the South African Defence Force soldiers, who dropped him at Algoa Park police station.That ultimately laid basis for his recruitment. ...

... let the students have a picket inside the school. We locked the gate in Sekamantwana but the police came. They first shot the lock open then the hippo drove through the gate, and as they were driving in they were actually shooting from the windows. ...

... if they do we might be in danger. When we looked on the one side we saw a Coyoko and when we looked again we saw a police van. We saw and a Hippo and a police van. There were police there who were shooting and there was no way we could get there so we remained in the house and about five ...

You think that he was shot, and then he was put in the Hippoand they travelled around with him while he was still alive in the Hippo forsome time, and only after some time they took him to the hospital. --- Yes,that's what I said exactly.

who were actually chasing the IFP, they came in large numbers and they shot at us in the hostel, up to the shacks. They were chasing us with their hippo's and others were running after us and we went to the nearest veld and they kept on shooting at us. That is the ...

MR FALTEIN: I don't know where these police came from. They were driving in a Hippo, but I am not sure which direction it came from. We started running away as soon as 2 it/...

... inside our village as whether are they were coming to attack us or are they coming peacefully. We who were at the entrance to Zeerust, met a Hippo, then they asked us what we were doing. We were explain to them that we have problems. We are protecting our community because there are ...

... us and then the caspar came, soldiers saying that we must, must control the crowd. When we got to, next to Crave, next to Crave Meat Industries a hippo, the vans hooted at us and when we were about the corner I heard gunshots. When I looked up I saw a car, a red car, it was coming towards us. ...

MR LEWIN: You say that he was shot from - was this from a Hippo?

MS PLAATJIES: I saw a hippo. It was full of policemen.

... to the police station. There came a police Casper. These people from Emlangeni family phoned this police Casper. The Emlangeni family phoned the Hippo and telling them that we were Comrades, we want to burn down their house. They went straight to the office. My brother was still standing ...

MR BUCWA: They were standing and showing up on top of the hippo and the first shooting was the cause of my injury.

... and people were holding a meeting there so I went there with my luggage. Whilst we were standing outside in a group, policemen came driving in a hippo. And we alerted those inside, the policemen came and did not say anything, they just chased and dispersed us throwing tear ...

MR RADEBE: First of all, there was a time after we combined with the unit from Polla Park, certain policemen were shot at night, and the Hippo, the police vehicle, Caspir that is, was, we took it and we used it to go to Katuza.