THALITHA SEKHAULELO
Ronnie is my sister's child. He was a member of COSAS at that time there was a middle school which was recently opened by Zacherema Katleng. At that time Ronnie was not at school because of certain reasons. On the 10th of February at that school there was an unrest by students where they were lodging some complaints. It was around 9 o'clock in the morning, I was day off then, I'm working at Ellerines Furniture Shop in Warmbaths, Ronnie passed with his friends, there were two they were passing next to my house, I called to him, then I said to him come here where are you going. He said to me sister I'm coming back I'm going somewhere down there. I said to him I'm requesting that you should not go there I was highly pregnant, I want to send you to the shop because I was busy with washing. He came to me when he arrived I gave him money that he must go and buy paraffin he went to the shop and bought those things, when he came back I requested him to make tea for me, he went to the kitchen, he did that. We sat under the tree and drank the tea. It was cloudy on that day, after we drank tea he went back to the kitchen and washed the cups and I continued with my washing. After some time a certain child came to me, I don't remember his name well, then he said to me Ronnie Kokalise is calling you, by then at school there was an unrest at school and we are not staying far from that school. When he said Kokalise is calling you I asked that boy what is he calling for they said he is asked to chop some wood then I released him then said when you finish come back I want you to accompany me somewhere. He agreed and then he went, by then it was around 11 o'clock. I was staying with my younger brother who was doing standard seven in that middle school. He was coming home for lunch. After the boy left with Ronnie to chop some woods police vans were passing, there were seven vans at Bedwang Police Stations, we used to call them pigs, they were looking like pigs and this big police vans were passing it was the direction of the school and others were parking next to the bus stop. Ronnie left, when that child came back for break he called me from a distance whilst I was busy washing. He said the police are beating Ronnie.