DAVID ZHELI DLAMINI
Now I do understand. At the time there were people who stayed at Mrs Mbuyazi's house, people like Ben and Mandwengu who had been arrested at the time. Mr Nkunu testified in court that since these boys had been arrested the violence in Esikoweni had subsided. A meeting between Mrs Mbuyazi and Nthena was held and it was decided that this claim should be refuted. It was discussed that the kombi should be used to increase the number of people who would die at Esikoweni. Although I do not remember the places or the areas that we went to. But we did drive around J1, H2, around those areas and we were firing. If we met a person in those areas we shot at him or her. And it did indeed assist in proving that the violence in Esikoweni was not decreasing and in fact the boys ended up getting the bail because it became clear that they were not responsible for the violence in Esikoweni. That is what I remember.