PATRICIA GXIDI
People said that there were people who were pregnant and they said 
that they want these pregnant women, because they are going to give birth to leaders.  
This happened until two in the morning and the police from Queenstown, White police 
from Queenstown came.  They had a list wanting people who attended the funeral.  
They found others, but they did not find other people who were in the list.  They asked 
us one by one questions about our interests to go to the funeral.  I told them that my 
parents are in Cradock and I was studying in Cradock, I knew these people.  They 
then assaulted me.
 There was one police by the name of Wanders, who was a Ciskeian police, 
from Cradock who was necklaced.  They then said that I was one of the people in 
Cradock who necklaced this police.  They then assaulted me.  After that they released 
us in the morning.  We were swollen.  We went back home.  Some of them were 
arrested due to that list.  I went to the doctor, because I was five months pregnant.  
My legs were swollen up and I was working for Buffalo Timber.  I did not go to work 
on that particular day.  I stayed until the time for me to give birth.  I gave birth.  
 When my child was growing up we did not see anything wrong with this child, 
but when the child started to attend school he was not grasping anything.  He was 
doing sub, standard A and I changed schools.  I took him to Dumangeni Mental 
Hospital in Queenstown to be examined.  A psychiatrist was called and he said that 
this situation might be caused by the fact that I was fighting with my child's, child while 
I was pregnant.  I then said that was not the case, but I told him the whole story.  My 
child's father, my child is 11 years old now.  I took him to the special school in town.  
He would tear up his clothes at Dumangeni Mental Hospital.  
 He came back at home one day and he was injured in his body.  When I took 
him to the clinic the nurses said that I was careless about the child.  I told them that I 
was working, I could not look after him all the time.  In this special school here in 
town they said that he got onto the tree and he fell, he broke his arm.  He does 
anything, he, you would get there and he would be bleeding, you will not know what 
had happened.  I have to look after him.  If something can be done for this child.  He 
does anything, even to other people.  I am scared that people are going to hurt him.