NSIKILELO RICHMOND NKWENKWE
I cannot remember seeing the officers coming in.  I would just see the officers up in the podium as the people who used to be respected.  We did not respect them on that particular day because of what was happening.  They would come in and they would be called to go up to the podium.  I remember in the middle of the night when they were talking about two white men, Maj Simms and Col Oosthuizen, Insp Mfene suggested that they be released but the police refused.  They said these people who were called seconded officials in the Ciskei, were part and parcel of the Ciskeian police.  I remember they were already on their way out and they had to go back again to the house and the police refused.  Among the black officers, I do not remember any of the black officers wanting to leave.  The people who had requested to be relieved were Col Simms and Col Oosthuizen.  I don't know whom did they approach to announce that in the hall but that was never accepted.  They were told to remain there because we wanted this action to be seen as the action of the police at large, the police were in one voice, were one.