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When this took place, when Bonkosi was killed, because they said he should not be a Chief because he was aligned to the ANC, quite a number of other people were his followers and I was also one of his followers.  We were aligned to the ANC and it was clear now that the situation was no longer conducive to being an ANC member.  It was difficult for us to hide ourselves and we ended up showing the community that we were ANC aligned and we did not believe that we had to be killed simply because we were members of the ANC.  It continued.  We spoke to the police, as I have already mentioned some names, but the police never went to arrest those people, not even a single one of them was arrested.  The very same police, Togozani Mguni was arrested but he was released the following day and that was the end of it.  Then in 1991 one comrade by the name of Lucky Mhlongo, who was at Sam's place they went to attack Sam's place and shot Sam there and killed him.  The people who did that were the Indunas Gambaqana Zuma, Mandla Nkosi Jaba Mzimela, Douglas Buza Mzimela as well as other people were present, but they were the prominent leaders.  So that's why I remember their names.   The first problem that we encountered was that as ANC members we were going to be eliminated.  And we remained being aligned to the ANC and we didn't want to have any conflicts with the IFP.  We used to conduct our meetings in the forests because we did not want to be detected by the Chief because the Chief was an IFP member and we kept on mobilising the community and recruiting them in a clandestine manner and they were able
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to give us information as to what the plans were as far as Inkatha was concerned.  
	Then in 1992 the IFP was holding a march at Makolokola what they call Nqabani.  They said that's where they made resolutions that they were going to harass the ANC people.  One of them was Gerhard Vana Mzimela, who was mentioned as the leader of the ANC because in 1991 Harry Gwala and Chris Hani came to Empangeni Hall and he took some of the comrades and that's what made him to be on the wrong side of the Inkatha.  We discovered that through Alfred Nutunhlongo, who was at the meeting that was held at (indistinct) Gumede.  It happened that on the 22nd February 1992 Gerald was driving his car from Mhlangubu.  Because the road was passing at that man's place, he saw the people who were in that meeting but he continued to drive and he proceeded to Maqegana and went to another person called Philemon Ndoda Mzimela to tell him that he had seen Inkatha members conducting a meeting and he said he saw Nontu and he came to warn us that we should take our children away because the Inkatha was going to launch an attack and he left and went to Mhlangubu to another comrade called (indistinct) Zondi.  At about six that afternoon he got those people on the road where they stopped his car and they shot him, he died instantly, and they took his car out of the road and threw it out of the road.  On that very same night another group of men who were armed went to the house of a certain man who was known as a person who mobilised the community.  He also owned a tuck shop and there was a belief that all those people who went into his house to buy were also directly involved in mobilising the community.  And whilst he was inside the tuckshop selling he saw a man who was standing at the 
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doorway and started shooting indiscriminately.  He got under the counter to try and hide himself.  Then he got a chance to escape, but he was not injured in any way.  Unfortunately three people who were there died and some were injured in the attack.  Jongula Mhlongu is one of those who died, Puma Hahlo Mzimela as well as his wife and the others got injured.  And one of the people who got injured was an IFP member.  But since he got injured he realised that the IFP had actually injured him so he changed floors and joined the ANC.