TESTIMONY_GIVER:
  These policemen were not just asking questions.  They just tortured me.  They took me to that farm and they alleged that I had a hand grenade, and they gave me a hand grenade.  I do not know whether it was a real one or not.  They wanted me to demonstrate as if I was throwing it so that they can take pictures of me, and I refused.  I said no, I am not going to do that.  They called my grandmother, that is my father's mother.  I did not even know the farm that was destroyed.  They took me to that farm, they showed it to me, and they asked my grandmother to convince me to go with them to the farm.  Because she was an old lady, scared of people, she said, "My son, tell them the truth."  They even went to my house and they alleged that I had hand grenades.  We had wood at home packed outside.  When I arrived at home they said to me, "Take out your hand grenades."  They referred to me as APLA man.  After I was released my grandmother talked to me.  She said, "Thabang, please take them out."  Because she was so scared the police said to her, "If he doesn't produce those hand grenades they are going to injure you," and I said to her, "Granny, they took them away.  I do not know where they are."  They left with me and they tortured me.  I was still handcuffed.  They suffocated me with a tube and they left me.  I was all by myself.  I went to the doctor because my left hand was now injured.  I think these people were so fond of trees.  You know, they used to tie people to the trees.  Now, at the time when they took me to the tree I tried to break the car so that I can escape because my hand was badly injured, and the windscreen injured me.  They were hitting me with their gun butts all over the body, and they left me.  I went home.  I showed my mother the hand, and the next day I went to the State doctor.  I told him that, "This hand of mine is numb, I cannot do anything."  He gave me a medical certificate and I took it to the hospital, and the Ficksburg Hospital referred me to Bethlehem Hospital, and they operated me.  They operated my hand at Bethlehem.  I could not use my hand at all.