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  They meant my husband and myself.  And they started searching.  They had their guns pointing at us even though they didn't try to shoot at anyone.  And we opened the door.  They searched the house until they were satisfied but they never found anything.  And in my house we had a small building where we put the generator to light our house.  They also wanted me to open that place.  I opened for them.  They searched and they didn't find anything.  They went back inside the house and they realised that they just can't find anything.  Then they left.  Later on they came back.  This time they were not wearing the soldier's  uniform.  They were wearing brown uniforms and they were black policemen.  And they were not talking Zulu.  And I heard they were soldiers.  And they were with a certain boy and this boy was from Mthembu's family.  When they arrived at my house with this boy, this boy said, "I came to show the policemen where the IFP boys were staying."  And I asked this boy, "Who told you so?"  This boy said, "I saw them.  They're staying in this house and they always had guns."  What I said to them, I said, "How many times are you going to come to my house and look for guns and you know even if you search for these guns you won't find them because we don't have guns?  What must we do now?"  Then I decided I should open the door for them, for them to check and then they started searching my house and they couldn't find anything.  Again they made me open that small building where I put my generator and they searched again and they didn't find it.  They asked for water to drink.  I gave them water and then they drank and left.  This thing kept on going on, this conflict between the ANC and the IFP in the area.  On the 30th of October 1993, it was at about half past four, we saw them going with guns and they were firing their guns.  And there were four people who were standing somewhere there.  At about 6.00pm many people came from the hill.  We were sitting outside, my and my husband, so we went inside the house and we closed the doors.  And these people came running and as soon as the arrived down the hill, that's when they started firing guns.  It was too noisy and we were scared.  We locked ourselves inside the house.  I heard my neighbour screaming and saying, "Please open the door for me," and I rushed to the door.  I opened the door for my neighbour and I locked the door again.  When she was relating to me, she said they were behind her and they wanted her to come first inside my house.  That's when they started shooting at my house.  They were shooting all the windows of my house.  Inside the house, we were six.  It was me, my husband, my maid or the lady who was helping me and my neighbour and a three-year-old child and one girl who was 15 years at the time.  They came with this neighbour of mine and they just went and rushed in one of my bedrooms.  And these people kept on shooting my house.  I locked my door and it was tough for them to break.  And they kept on firing the door.  And if you can take the guns - ran from the top until down.