MR MNISI
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Chairperson and the entire Committee.  It was in the morning at about nine o'clock on the eleventh of October 1978.  I went to the shop to buy a cooldrink and I met a Boer by the name of Fanie de Beer who was working at the local police station.  This policeman tried to stop me along the road and asked for my passbook and the lodger's permit.  I told him that left those documents at home.  He told me to get inside the police van.  I refused and told him that the only people will get into the police van are the ones who are arrested.  He locked the car and we walked back to my house.  I opened the door and went inside.  I tried to look for the documents he wanted.  They were in my Mom's bedroom and they were at work during the day.  I told him, the documents you want from me are in this bedroom but I'm unable to get in because it's locked.  He told me I should kick the door open so I can gain entry and get the documents.  I told him he better do that so my Mom and Dad will hold you responsible for that.  He was adamant that I should kick the door open and I refused.  I told him that the owners of the bedroom are at work and I can't do that.  He started assaulting me at that time.  He hit me with a fist and I asked him, are you fighting now or do you want a lodger's permit ?  He said to me, kick this door open.  I told him that I won't do that.  After that I hit him back because I realized that he was fighting.  When I hit him back, he fell on the sofas.  When he fell on the sofas he drew his gun and shot me on my right thigh, on my right foot.  When I tried to step down I realized that my
foot was broken.  He left.  I fell into the kitchen from the dining room and he went back to the dining room.  He closed the curtains.  I just heard the sound that he was closing the curtains.  He went past me in the kitchen, went outside and brought more police into the house.  One of them was a Sergeant Station Commander.  I have forgotten his name.  I think he is Maboya.  He is Joubert, something like that.  The Station Commander he brought with him asked, what happened to this gentleman and he told him that he's already shot me because I didn't have a pass book and a lodger's permit in my possession.   He wanted to find out why he didn't arrest me instead of shooting me.  The Station Commander said to the other policemen they should take me to the van and we drove to town to Doctor Lindeque and he put me under the X-ray and it was discovered that I had a fracture and I was transferred to Heidelberg Hospital.  I was admitted there for a day.  The following day the doctors came to attend to me and the same results were obtained.  I was transferred from there to Natalspruit Hospital.  It was there that I was operated on.  They inserted screws into my foot.  I was shot for the lodger's permit and pass book and I had those things, it's just that I could not get them because they were in the bedroom and the bedroom was locked.  That's what happened.