TESTIMONY_GIVER:
I was not present at that time, I had gone to Ntuzuma, but my child went away from me and went to the grandmother's place in Chesterville, because every vacation they visit their grandmother at Chesterville.  And I heard whilst I was in Ntuzuma that the children had died in Chesterville, but I didn't have any details as to what had happened.  But according to what they told me they said SB police officers came, and they said they were looking for a certain boy.  And they were given a permit to get into the residential area and they went to street No 16, but I don't know whether they got whoever they were looking for.  But later on I was told that the very same police who went to street No 16 to look for a certain person got to the youths, and they told my son to go and look for other youths.  And after looking for those youths he must bring them with to them, and they must go to a certain shack.  And they wanted to take them to be trained as soldiers, and they told him to recruit quite a number of youths, because at that time it was very difficult for the youth to go out of the country and be trained as soldiers.  My son went away to look for other youths to no avail.  They were told to get into a certain house at No 16.  They went there.  I think they were about five.  They went into this shack, and when they got to the shack which was pointed out by the police they were shown guns.  That is according to what was related to me, because I was not there.  And in the street there was a certain kombi with dark windows, and it was also dark, it was in the evening.  Most of the lights in the houses were off because it was late at night.  The only people who were not asleep were the ones who were staying in the shack that my son went to.  There were certain vans waiting at a certain bridge next to a certain village called Masixanga, and the police as well as the SB were waiting there, as well as at the cemetery, and vans were lining the street.  The youths went into this shack, and some other police who belonged to the SB, as well as one female - there were two females.  They went into this particular shack and they were shown guns.  They were asked as to whether they knew what these were, and the children said they didn't know anything about guns.  And they were asked whether they wanted to skip the country.  The youths said they wanted to skip the country, and the policemen said to them they should wait there.  As they were still waiting there for the policemen to come back they shot them through the windows of the shack, and everybody else inside was shot.  One of the youths escaped through the window.  He was shot in the knee.  The other one was stampeded upon, and my son was just in pieces.  And people were running away because they did not know what was happening, and they did not know where the SBs were.  That is the story that I got, and the following morning the boy on which they had fallen was still alive, and he screamed from beneath the other bodies.  And police from Cato Manor came and they retrieved the bodies that were there.  There were about four.  That is all I know about this incident.