JEFFREY THAMSANQA RADEBE
I think I lack the words of a poet to describe the difficult circumstances under which our people used to live here.
	In short our people were victims of a ruthless war of attrition against them.  As I indicated almost on a daily basis, I used to bury comrades, I used to get phones of attacks by the police.  Places like Umkababa, Port Shepstone, massacres of people at Umlazi. 
	At one point I remember very well in 1992, there were about 13 of our people who were killed at Umlazi.  They were killed when they wanted, we wanted to bury those people.  The local authority of Umlazi refused permission for us to bury our people.
	We even went to the Supreme Court for a mandamus application which was rejected by the Supreme Court.  We had to make a demonstration with 13 dummy coffins in the street of Durban, in West Street.  You will go to areas like Inanda, you will find bodies of comrades laying down, you will communicate with the police, the Defence Force.  They totally had no interest, except as I indicated in my evidence, one Colonel Lawrence who was willing to go the extra mile in trying to resolve the situation.
	It was really a horrible situation to live in Southern Natal.