toyi-toyi

MR KRUSER: The other crowds moved almost consistently in a slow type of march or toyi-toyi as they would call it. This crowd was, as though they were humming up in type of dance at the corner, standing still but they were not moving, they seemed to be constant on the corner, that is my ...

MS MBIXANA: In 1986, in September, there was a funeral in Avenue A in New Brighton in Port Elizabeth. We used to see him joining the toyi toyi, but on this particular day, we were not aware that he was there. Then I noticed that he was not present, then we said that if he was there, he would of ...

You take such instances that at one main school here, there was a sports competition and kids were playing. One team in which there were many Black kids won so they started toyi-toying and singing in Sotho, jumping for joy that they won. The principal at the assembly said this school has an ...

MS THABETHE: My next question is, isn't it common cause, Mr Mnyandu, that if there were toyi-toyiing or marches the police would call a person that they know is a comrade to tell the others to disperse or sometimes what they would do they would use a loudspeaker and tell the people to disperse? ...

approaching her house, toyi-toying on the 27th. She ran away with her two children and approached the veld and we chased after her. We found her near a river and we caught her. The comrades who caught her were around about 10 to 15. She was already bleeding at that time on the head and on the ...

MR HENS: There were some other people who appeared in court, but this boy had been arrested as one of the people who were in a toyi toyi.

In addition you had a lot of freedom songs which had this line, "kill the Boer", which was meant merely to motivate our soldiers, in many freedom songs they are there, it's not belonging to Peter Mokaba, and I think we need to make that very clear. The people who said it belonged to Peter Mokaba ...

MR MABASO: It is the same with Stephen. I’ve indicated that I was, that I was on patrol. It was supper time. Other had to have their supper, and others were expected to go on patrol whilst others were having supper. We all knew him. We all knew them. Everybody and old women and aged women and ...

R GQEME: Yes, we walked passed these Whites. Some of us walked down Dendes Street and down Dunga Street and we joined the rest and the bridge. Those - that was the crowd that was toyi-toying and we moved towards Sipunzana.

And you had come to the march on the 7th September. --- In 1992 I was a student here in Bisho, resident here in Bisho and I was injured before the march. I was injured here in Bisho. We were toyi-toying on our way back from a meeting and I was knocked by a car driven by soldiers. Before then, ...

MR NDWANDWE: I think you were present while evidence was being led that during those days anything to do with boycotts, stay-aways and toyi-toying, people who used to blamed for such incidents were the ANC people. I don't know whether you understand that kind of a picture.

He just says that in a detailed manner that Jacques was involved in events, he was toyi-toying in the street, he was actively involved in throwing rocks at vehicles. There’s also a quote, the deceased Jacques de Bruin and Pieter Ruiters was prominently visible in the group. (end of quote) The ...

MR MAKHULENI: I heard about this incident, it was 1987, that a certain Policeman known as Shorts shot a pregnant woman in the stomach and Mabanza Road when there was a toyi-toying moving around in the corner of Mabanza. The woman was walking, so they were dispersing that toyi-toyi.

MR WILLIE BALOYE: On the 23rd we were on our back from the S&B Stadium rally of Sianquoba, we moved by train from Johannesburg and we were singing and very happy. When the train got to Kaalfontein there were no people inside. We were toyi-toyiing. When the train left the platform a group of ...

MR NGCOBO: No. I did not... I did mention who the people were because they were known. They used to toyi toyi and celebrate the whole night after the had killed a person, and everybody knew them and knew what they had done. They were toyi toyiing even near the police station.

So then we started having a conflict. When this conflict started the WARSA people, in fact, the FAWU people started toyi-toying. We went to the toyi-toyi and the WORSA people went to fetch people at Thokoza, Vosloorus and arrived and they took them to Escort bacon factory and they put them on ...

MR MADUNA: I was from Radebe and I was going to Mafimela, at home, I had an AK-47 with me. I saw many comrades and they were toyi toying, they were singing, and I joined them. There was a van, and in that van there was a RPG 7, fireguns were just fired between Tokoza and Myala. We went across ...

We were asked why did we not use crowd control measure as standard practice. If the marchers would have moved as a crowd, singing, toyi-toying, chanting, towards our lines, we would have been able to stick to proper crowd control measure but that was not the case. When our soldiers, my soldiers, ...

MR BUDDU: The other instruction which I gave was in Modder B Prison, but as I said earlier on, was after the elections. Where I was informed, I was informed from other prisons throughout the country where inmates were given that right to peacefully protest without breaking down the prison or ...

MRS MAY: There was toyi-toyi all over.