TESTIMONY_GIVER:
  It was the Inkatha youth which was being led by Michael.  This happened several times where he had been assaulted, and he ran away from home several times.  He was being chased in and out of the house, and he ultimately ran away.  And later on they kept on coming to me and they said I should tell them where does ANC get its strength, and at that time when the house was burnt for the first time Xolani was 13 years old, and when we got the second house now he was 21 years old.  And at this time he was very stubborn.  We were taken to Mr Maphalala's office.  I was taken together with Xolani to Mr Maphalala's office, and they would ask him about the ANC and he would answer them because he knew, and I didn't know anything about politics and political groups.  And they would come in and say, "As soon as you've finished asking him questions you must give him to us.  We shall deal with him accordingly."  But Mr Maphalala sort of intervened, because he was an elderly man and therefore he was reasonable, much more reasonable than the youth.  And at that time I could not sleep in the house any more because I had had this experience, so I would sleep under the tree, and Xolani used to sleep on the roof.  And I would go underneath the tree and sleep.  At times they would just come and fill the yard, and they would look for everyone else in the house, and they would not get anyone and they would go.  I would wake up from underneath the tree, wash myself up and go to work.  At times I would get home and hear rumours that he had been chased and had been assaulted, and they would do all sorts of things to him.  Whenever I came back from work I used  to pass through some hawkers, and they would each time tell me, "Here's meat.  Buy some meat," because they were hawkers, but on this particular day when I went past them they did not sell me the meat, and somehow I felt something was wrong.  I felt it in me that nobody was selling me anything today, say probably there is something wrong.  Just as I looked I noticed that I was being escorted somehow.  There was a youth behind me, a youth on my left as well as my right hand, and there was a youth right in front of me.  I suspected that they were surrounding me.  At some stage I decided to stop, and whenever I stopped they also stopped.  We went up to a certain hillock, and as we descended the hillock I saw a group of me who were standing.  And there ensued now a shooting spree.  They were shooting each other.  That is these youth as well as another group of men.  And I ran away.  Just as I was running away these other youths came to me and said they were accompanying me because I was going to be killed and my house had been burnt earlier on.