MARY BURTON
Thank you, thank you, well you have a roll model to try to follow in your - in your family and we give you our sympathy that you lost your father at such a very young age.  I would just like - before asking you anything else - if you - if there's anything else you want to say, to read to you something of what I - Research Department have told us about what was happening at the time.  
In 1984 the African Township of Beaufort West had a population of approximately 7,000 consisting of hundreds of chanteys and approximately 600 houses.  11 taps and 16 public toilets served the entire community.  On the 9th of December 1984 the black youth of Beaufort West called a mass meeting at which the  Zanokhanyo Youth Organisation - Zanokhanyo means come with  the light - was established.  And the driving force behind the Youth Organization was a dynamic organizer and dedicated political activist, Mandlenkosi Tshaka Kratshi.
On the 22nd of January, as we've heard,  Mr Kratshi who was also a member of the UDF in the Karoo, an executive member, was shot dead.  Following the shooting, residents  gathered at the local community hall to discuss the shooting.  Numerous community councillors  resigned
After police used tear gas to disperse the crowd outside a hall that evening, an attempt was made to fire a bomb at policeman's home.  The house was gutted, but the policeman and his family were taken safely to a secret address.  Unconfirmed reports alleged that the home attacked belonged to  one of the policemen involved in the shooting of  Mr Kratshi.  
On Wednesday a second house was gutted and there was a total boycott of classes on the 23rd of January at the Lower Primary School in the township.
All political gatherings in the Magisterial District of Beaufort West were banned for that weekend in terms of the Internal Security Act.  The funeral was held on the 1st of February and went ahead in a  ceremony marked by discipline and restraint.  The UDF and apparently the entire black community of Beaufort West decided to comply with all the provisions of an order by a Magistrate which prohibited freedom songs, banners and speeches and effectively restricted the crowd to fewer that 300.  
The people decided to plan the ceremony as a peaceful one and the word went out that most would have to stay indoors.  This was said by the Rev Paul Oliver of the AME Church.  The service  was a very emotional one and the township of Beaufort West was renamed KwaMandlenkosi in memory of Mr Kratshi.
You are Mr Kratshi junior, is there anything else that you would like to add to what you've said to us already?