NOMONDE CALATA
Yes it was in December.  Now in January, when the students went back 
to the schools, they found out that Matthew is not available, it was true that the 
Department fired him.  The schools reopened, school boycotts started, pupils were not 
going to school, they wanted Matthew to be reinstated.  Parents were at the same time 
negotiating with the Department of Education and Training.  But you know nothing 
actually never came up from the Department of Education, whether to reinstate Matthew 
or not.  On the 31st of March, in 1984, it was 10 o'clock in the evening, we were sleeping, 
we heard lots and lots of cars outside, I said to my husband, "No let us not wake up, let's 
wait and see what happens."  We heard knocks at windows at the front of the house, all 
over.  
 Because I was always close to him I tried to be very strong.  We stood up and lit 
up the house.  I said to them. "If you are not going to knock at the door only, I'm not going 
to open". They knocked at the door, Mr Venter stepped in, he had a paper in his hands but 
he never showed it to me, what was written on it, he said to me, "Where is Mr Calata, 
we're here to detain him in terns of the Internal Security Act."  
 My husband was in the room, he already had his clothes on and he was wearing 
very warm clothes.  There policemen, EAST LONDON  HEARING TRC/EASTERN