ELIZABETH NOTHEMBILE HASHE
Yes, the stay-away continued but on Monday evening, my husband arrived.  They were just outside for a patrol and he came in and said, "Oh well the stay-away was 100%". We knew that this thing would continue.  We were talking to each other nicely.  At about 12 o'clock a helicopter was hovering and I just decided that it was just a helicopter hovering above but something made me notice that this helicopter was hovering right above my house.
And he said to me, "Ntobile, those are the Boers, what have we done? You should know that anything might happen really". While we were still puzzled, talking about this thing, actually our child woke us up, he wanted to pipi.  After listening to this, there was a loud sound. I saw fire.  I didn't know what was happening.  I heard him shouting at the children, he said, "Visumuse, switch off the main switch!", and I ran out of the house, I went out of the window, you know, in my house you can jump through big windows and then another one and you get out.  On my way out there was a police van driving off. I knew it was the police. They were 
EAST LONDON  HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE
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not actually driving off, they were taking another turn into another street.  A black man from this squad was asking a question.  What's happening.  I started chasing them, I started shouting at them, I asked them what's really happening?  They went off, they left my place.