NOMBENQANA ALBERT KOTI
Chairperson and Committee Members, I am extremely disturbed by certain incidents where I was involved.  I Nombenqana Albert Koti are 46 years old, have made a sworn affidavit.  I am going to start with the incident regarding Mtandazeli Patrick Mdyogolo.
 In the above-mentioned year, 1984, although it is mentioned as 1985 here, I was in the employ of the South African Police as a reservist where I was from the 21st battalion of this army and we were based here in Grahamstown.
 At the time there were incidents of riots and I was with recruits where we were patrolling Raglan Road and
Albert Street because cars were being attacked in Rockland Road.  
 We were patrolling those areas.  As we were patrolling that street, we were called by Mr Junkin who had a shop in Albert Street, he stopped the van and when  he came to the van he reported to us that his shop had been broken into a few moments ago and that I should please take his children to James, a relative of his. 
 We heard on the radio in the van, Sergeant Dekeda reporting to the police in New Street that a boy was found (indistinct), where he had been deceased, but had no wounds.  Sergeant Dekeda was making this report from New Street.
 Junkin was called and I said to him can you see it is bad in Joshua as well and also Makanaskop Bottle Store had been broken into and Junkin was surprised by this and he took these, this man's children to James.
 In the next few days I heard rumours that Mtandazeli Patrick Mdyogolo had been shot by me.  I went to Junkin there and then and asked him if he had also heard these rumours that I had shot Patrick Mdyogolo at Jole's.  He then said to me that if they wanted me at court, they wanted him at court that they should contact them and he provided a number because he was with me at this time of the incident, and other policemen were deployed at Jole's.
 We then went to court.  Captain Nel was in charge at the time, we went to court.  Although I don't see him here in Grahamstown any more, he had the occurrence book of the charge office because when we are deployed to places it is recorded in the occurrence book who is deployed where and I was recorded as having been deployed at Fingo and he gave the explanation at court, saying that Koti was working at
Fingo Village and he had not gone to the other area.
 I was then acquitted, found not guilty and set free to go.