TEBELLO TRYWELL MBATHA
Nobody responded to my shout when I called out to their names.  I then pushed the people who were lying on top of me.  I didn't know who they were because it was dark in the house.  I only realised that I could not move when I attempted to get up and walk.  I then remained there for a while and somebody responded, asking whether I was still alive and who am I and I indicated that I am Tebello, I am still alive and my whole body is burning from the bottom to the top, I cannot move and he indicated that he was thinking of going out to seek some help.  I then realised that it was Stanley because he had already identified himself.  I then requested him, that is just before he went out, people were dying and I was in the process of dying too, I requested that he takes me out of the shack and hide me among the mielie fields because these people might come back.  He did not listen to me.  When he went out of the house, he started making noise.  His explanation is that he travelled, or walked a distance from the house to the street shouting, by which time a lot of people had started gathering and he then gave them an explanation to the effect that they had now been injured.
	There were people who came to the scene first.  These were not members of my family, but neighbours.  One such person was Skolo, he was a next-door neighbour.  He was a middle-aged person and Mdo as well.  When they came it was dark.  There was poor visibility and he lit some matches.  On lighting matches he exclaimed with shock and he withdrew, he went out of the house.  That's when I started realising that indeed a person is badly injured.  
	The second group of people to come in were my two uncles.  They attempted to lift me up, but they realised that they could not.  They tried to put me onto a blanket then they lifted me by the blanket.  When they came, a van had already arrived, that is the van into which I was taken and they covered me with a sail, or a canvass.  Before this van left, came this police minibus.  It had doors on both sides and when these people explained, they said they had come for the injured people.  By that time I had already been taken away in that van, so they missed us.  
	Then I was taken to Makhote Hospital.  When I arrived at Makhote Hospital I was told that they could not help me because they didn't have certain machines, so that I had to be taken to King Edward Hospital.  There were certain whites with whom we worked at the King Edward Hospital.  These whites had come from the Black Sash.  These are the people who took me and hid me in a certain compartment, because when we arrived there we were told that the police had been there looking for us.  
	I refused to go to the theatre until about 2 o'clock.  My aunt arrived at 9 o'clock in the morning.  By that time I had already been informed that others with whom we were shot, had already died.  It was my aunt who convinced me to go to the theatre.
	I think I regained consciousness after 6 or 7 days because my family say I would stare at them when they came to visit me but I would not say a thing.   So when I regained consciousness, I inquired as to what happened.  They explained the whole story again.  I managed to have a recollection of the whole scene and I had several gun shot wounds on my body, about 9 of them, I think, such that I spent about 4 to 5 months recuperating in hospital.  	There was a time when I was under police guard and some police would come and take statements from me.  We had a lawyer, Mr Shezi.  He came to me.  He indicated to me that I should not give the police any statement.  If they wanted to arrest me, so be it.  I had already read in the newspapers stories to the effect that we had fired shots at the police.  The police who were guarding me spent about a month, if I'm not mistaken, after which they disappeared.  I have no reason to say I know why they disappeared.  I think what explanation I have given you here is, to my knowledge, according to what happened.