NONHLANHLA TANDAZILE ZULU
Myself as a victim and all other fellow victims at Esikoweni and Mandeni and other areas surrounding areas, during our meeting yesterday we had an opportunity to ask those who are asking for amnesty questions and ask them clarity on things that were not clear to us. We are grateful that clarity was given but I would first of all like to explain that in the meeting we were not complete. Some people were not here, that is the victims. In the meeting they were to receive clarifications and explanations. We then discussed and took a decision that we were satisfied with the explanations that they had supplied us. We believe that they had told us the truth because activities that were performed by people who are no longer here but on their orders. This they were able to explain to us and they indeed gave us an explanation that they were ordered by those people. We then agreed that we accept their request for forgiveness. In that way we do not oppose the decision that will be made by this committee as befitting these applicants. If the committee decides that on their testimony they should be granted amnesty, we do not oppose this. But the victims also expressed that all concerned individuals who indeed planned these activities but have not sought amnesty and those who were directly implicated in the terrorising of the community and who have not sought amnesty we request that they be indeed summoned to a forum where they can explain their activities. We as the victims in Esikoweni and surrounding areas cannot rest until we see that justice takes its due course regarding those implicated persons. We will like to see all of them brought to justice and pay for their activities. I thank you.