NOSIPHO BLOSSOM MARWEZU
In 1985 I was a student at Qaqamba doing my standard nine.  
There were riots at Duncan Village.  The police then would regularly come to my 
home looking for me.  I got a message that the police are looking for me.  I left and 
stayed at Mdantsane, NU15, with my sister.  My mother said that I must just go and 
surrender to the police, because she could not sleep, the police were regularly there.  
They were going to arrest her if I did not give myself up to the police.  I then said I 
would go to the Cambridge Police Station.  
 Heather, my sister, said that I should go to Cape Town to my eldest sister.  I 
truly went to Cape Town.  I stayed there in 1985.  In 1986, May, I came back.  I 
thought that, perhaps, everything had subsided.  On the 18th of June I was at home 
sleeping.  There was a knock at the door.  It is the police.  It was at about one or two 
a.m.  My mother opened the door.  When they got in they did not say anything to my 
mother.  They were with a policeman who knows me, Mandisi Mbewana.  They could 
not see me, because I had covered myself.  They said to my mother that they are going 
to arrest her if they cannot find me.  They then took me.  However, they took my two 
other brothers as well, Thembinkosi and Mbuyiseli, who is late.
 I was in pyjamas.  They did not even let me change.  When I got outside I saw 
a caspar.  They put me into that caspar.  It was packed with people.  They were 
probably going around collecting people.  They took us to a place called Strongpoint 
where the soldiers are in Duncan Village.  The next morning we were taken to 
Cambridge.  The Captain asked what the charges were.  This man then responded in 
saying that he does not know.  He was just given a list to arrest all the people.  Mr 
Mbewana came saying that he wants all of us at Westbank.  Then there was a State of 
Emergency.  We were taken to Westbank.