sjambok

MR MABOYA: I think I was the only one, because at that time if you hold meetings, Black school children, they will come there, they won't ask you, they'll just sjambok you.

... to kill the alleged witches. When the crowd of which he was part arrived at the deceased's home, she was assaulted. Mulaudzi hit her with a sjambok. He also instructed the younger people to put a second tyre on the body of the deceased. He also pelted the house of the deceased with ...

... a piece from a newspaper, a Mr Isaac Setseku who was tortured by means of electrical shocks, during my days. I can tell you they might have used a sjambok, they might have used a kierrie, and I'm against this whole question of electrical shocks. A policeman would not have dared doing it. Mr ...

... they are white, we hate them because they oppress us. Remove oppression, the hatred will go. It is therefore plain dishonesty to say I hate the sjambok not the person who is yielding it." Can you explain to the Committee what did you mean by ...

"The assault would take various forms, clapping a detainee with open hands and clenched fists, beating a detainee with a sjambok, forcing a detainee to hold a chair by both arms upwards for an inordinate period. The detainee would collapse due to exhaustion and fatigue. Letting a detainee to do ...

And you indicated that as you were leaving the school, the premises, you were assaulted by the police. What did they assault you with? --- They beat me with a sjambok.

but he was pale, pale that time. On his return he was crying telling us he was from Kempton Park Police Station, they beat him, they kick him, they sjambok him there, he said on their way to Kempton Park Station. He was inside of the car's boot. How do you manage it, how do you think. That's ...

MRS SIZILA: They used a sjambok.

MR R.B. CELE: No, I cannot remember because a lot of people partook in the lashing of those people. There were about 600 people present. You would give them a lash and give the sjambok to another person until they had received their number that had been decided upon.

an elderly lady from Umlazi. She had been in detention previously, I think, also under Section Six and she had been severely beaten. She still had sjambok marks on her back. I would just maybe ask the Commissioners to see if they can find out what has happened to Gladys and, you know, whether ...

CHAIRPERSON: But his punishment is a whipping on the behind with a sjambok, that is what he anticipates.

but from the notes at my disposal, there is an allegation that you were beaten at the police station during your detention in 1985 - in fact with a sjambok. Is that - is that not during 1985 ...

The police were called immediately and two of the three policeman started assaulting him with a sjambok and a kierie.

During the interrogation, Taylor struck Khubeka with a sjambok.  According to Botha, this was not a severe assault, but a way of emphasising the seriousness of the situation and the need for her to co-operate with them.  The interrogation lasted approximately fifteen to twenty minutes and ...

MR KGOATHE: He found that my father had lots of marks, that he had been whipped with a sjambok. He had also been beaten with the buckle of a belt on his body. Even the Dr Joubert, he'd also been told by my father before he died that he slipped on soap, but when the doctor said no, no, no this ...

... A girl called Nthombizolwa and a boy called Mbongi came out. The other one, that is the man, had a knife, and the girl, Nthombizolwa, had a sjambok. They called me. They said, "You come here, a member of Inkatha." Should I have known what was going to happen I could have ran way, but I ...

Mzayitani had a Gemsbok sjambok and then he put it - and put it on the roof. The police came in, Meshack I cannot remember the other policemen but he was a Coloured. They both came in, they were policemen. They went to the room and they took of the blankets from the person who was sleeping on ...

MR MOGASWANE: They used to sjambok the youth, especiallly when they saw people in groups of more than three people.

got worried, but the previous night I had this dream while sleeping. I heard a voice saying , "Mama Mama", and I woke up. I went outside, I took a sjambok, I said I want to see this thing that's shouting Mama Mama outside. I went outside but I couldn't find anything. I went back into the house ...

He testified that on the evening in question, he was at his home when he heard people shouting "Inkatha". He left his home carrying a sjambok towards the direction from where the noise came and in an open veld, he found a large group of about 500 people shouting "Let's kill them".