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Mbuyiselo Songelwa was my husband.
EAST LONDON  HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE
2 N SONGELWA
Mbuyiselo was born by very proud people, brilliant people.  Those were people who belonged to a church.  These were the people who were involved in politics.  I think this political thing was really inherited.  He was working at SABC at TV 2, he was a producer who started working there in 1981.  In 1983 he came back.  The report that I received on that day was that he was involved in a fight with a white man with whom he was working.  Well he came back home and we were settled.  It was a happy life that we were leading.
 In 1983 we married.  Before then we had a child, a son, Nomawande.  In 1983, we got married while I was expectant of another child, a daughter.  As I have already mentioned that Mbuyiselo was of a family involved in politics, I realised that he also was interested in politics.  At Komani, Queenstown, he arrived from Gauteng, he was very active in organisations.  He was involved in the parents' committee in Queenstown. I remember one day I was crying because Mbuyiselo was working at ABC, he was moving up and down all the schools mobilising all the children who were on strike, and I asked him, "Mbuyiselo, when are you going to start working?  People are working, I'm really carrying this heavy load on my shoulders".  I said, "Well seeing that I'm now married to the whole team", this was a UDF team, he was a very active member of the UDF, Mbuyiselo was among the people who were arrested for parent support.  There was also a residents ad hoc, I realised that there was nothing that I could do anymore. I said, "Well you can leave me, go to the funerals".  Well at that time I was always warning him.