NQABAKAZI GODOLOZI
I can't remember very well when this happened. I think it was in 1984, but I'm not quite sure about the month.
 Those 45 men left my place and just after they left, my husband came in a car accompanied by Mr Hashe.  A few days later when we woke up, our car was on fire.  People were trying to wake us and they told us about the problem that our car was on fire.  We tried to extinguish the fire and then, can I just go back?  When my husband came in I informed him of the 45 men who came to assault him, and then he said that we must move away, so that these people, when they come, they should not find him.  When I told him that we should really move and that this was a threatening 
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situation, he refused because he was a very stubborn person. I started crying, was so emotional, because I knew what was going to happen.
 So I requested somebody to take him to another part of the location which is Zakele and when I went to work the following day, I went to my cousin, informed her about what is going to happen and also told him about the people who threatened to assault him, and also the story and gave an account about the arson which has taken place.
 Our cousin offered us a house and then she promised that she would go and stay with her family.  This was a one-roomed house but we endured the situation. I was working at the time and my husband was still unemployed.  The police discovered that I was still employed, the building in which I was employed was just in front of the court.  
 After the house belonging to Mrs Hashe was burned, the police, Mr Ndiyani and Mr du Preez, came in at work and asked for Mrs Godolozi.  When they arrived I denied that I was Mrs Godolozi, they went further and asked and then were informed them that she's gone out.  And they were angry and went up the stairs and came back again.  They wanted the manageress and made enquiries about this Mrs Godolozi, and I was called in by the manageress, and when I went there, she showed them  who I was.
 They were very angry at me because I had made a fool of them, but I just kept quiet.  They took me away and when I went to SANLAM, they made enquiries again and they interrogated me.  They asked me whether I had a child and I said that I did and I told them his name. They were very angry because  my child's name was Umkonto Wesizwe and wanted to know why I gave him this name.  I just told them 
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that that is none of their business.  We exchanged words and they were questioning me about my background, asking me where we were staying, and I gave them an incorrect address.
 One day they saw him on paper next to Mrs Hashe's place.  They asked us if we stayed there and we told them that we were not.  I was kept for hours at SANLAM and they were exchanging others who came in speaking in Afrikaans, I just kept quiet because I didn't always understand what they were saying.  
 When I came I informed my husband of what had happened at work.  We stayed for a few days.  My husband came back and informed me about some books which he had brought along.  He would bring some books at times from Lesotho and at times he'd take them away again and would no tell me what happened, and then he would also tell me that some of the books were banned.  He told me that these books were taken to his friend.  When the books were kept there, they were asking also at the friend's place and some of the books were burned there.
 The person whose house was burned was also taken away by the police.  They searched the house and got these books and this person was interrogated.  He informed the police that the books belonged to my husband.  They started looking for us and we were right inside the house.