BRIAN CLIFFORD THOBEJANE
I think on the 27th, I met thelate Prince, who was my immediate Commander.  I was together with Donald Mukhawana,Thomas Ngobeni and Tekwani.  All of us, we slept at the place of the late Princeand then we finalised our plans of going to Mr Swanepoel's place to attack. Each and everyone of us were given his own instructions the day.  The very sameday, in the afternoon, we went there but myself, I went there with Thomas Ngobenibecause when we were a group of five, we were using a  public transport.  Therewere some delays because the transport which we were using was the public transport,so it was not ours, we arrived there late at Mr Swanepoel's farm.  We didn'tmanage to get in by then, because it was late because all the gates were closedand the dogs were barking at us.  Then we thought of retreating until the followingday in the morning because the dogs were making a noise and the gates were closedand according to our own plan, we were supposed to have arrived in the farmhouse before they closed the gates.  We wanted to catch them by surprise butbecause the dogs were barking, we didn't manage.  Mr Swanepoel's place is inthe bushes, we stayed there until the following day in the morning around fiveo'clock or passed five.  We entered his farm.  The dogs were still barking andwe jumped the fence.  We deployed each other, myself and late Prince, we hidourselves by his garden, facing the door, the front door of Mr Swanepoel's house. The aim was to catch him by surprise when he get out of the house and the othercomrades were a little bit at the back.  When he came out, I pointed an AK47at him,  I was armed with it together with the late Prince, we instructed himto stand and then he stood there.  I don't know what he was having, I thinkit was a camera or a pistol in his hand.  We told him to go back to the house. While Mr Swanepoel was going back to the house, the late Prince was holdinghim like this at his back and then we took him back to the house.  What I realisedis that, I didn't know by then that she was Mrs Swanepoel.  She was having apistol and she was holding a phone as well, so they late approached her.  WhatI can remember is that Mrs Swanepoel shot at us while I was still with Mr Swanepoel,while I was driving him back to his house.  When we entered, it is when thelate was no longer on the window, he was inside the house.  When he arrived,he was on the passage, Mrs Swanepoel shot at him but she missed.   The latePrince was having a Tokarev pistol, he fired back, he didn't fire a lot of shots,but the first bullet hit her on the chest and Mrs Swanepoel fell.  I am sorry,let me put this correctly, when we started shooting Mr Swanepoel wanted to runaway, so I was having an AK47 in my hand, I pointed it at him, I wanted to shootat him, it didn't go off, it jammed.  Mr Swanepoel entered in one of his roomsand locked himself in, but we didn't manage to open the door.    We had realisedthat Mrs Swanepoel phoned and although they didn't hear what she was saying,the phone was laying down, so they could hear that there was something goingon in the house.  Then we called off the operation.  The late Prince instructedus to withdraw, then we withdrew.  We withdrew and jumped the fence to the bushes. The helicopters were around by then.  We manoeuvred ourselves into the bushes,they didn't manage to catch us.