MRS MATLANA
While I was then after my child's death this white policemen came and they came to one house where there was a tent and they were running after some children.   The children ran towards the house and got into the house.  When they arrived and entered the house I asked them, I didn't know that they understood Zulu and I asked in Zulu what are they looking for because they have already killed my son and one of the white men answered me and he said to me we are looking for (indistinct) this is the young kids.  There were so many people in my house and they said they are going to take me and kill me in the house.  However, the people tried to ask them not to kill me.  I don't remember - I would like to apologise before God, I don't think of anything if ever I was to be employed I was going to poison the white man's children.  The way they killed my son hitting him against a rock and we found him with a swollen head, they killed him in a tragic manner and I don't think I will ever forgive in this case, especially to these police who were involved and who were there.  What worries me the most is that the Alexandra policemen were the people who were running around, they were called (indistinct) those were the people who
ALEXANDRA HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
7 MADLANA
started all the altercations between them and the children because on the 1st January until new year they were guarding one women's hostel where this incidents where there was this first child to be buried.  He was standing in front of  his gate and he was shot by police from the (indistinct) police station.  This boy was playing for a soccer club called Mighty Quin.  They came with their guns and they shot us, we were cooking, they poured some tear-gas in the pots in which we were cooking and from there up to the time where there was this six days war.  Thereafter they continued in February and came to kill one child at 3rd Avenue. I would say that children got angry because they could see that the police were finishing us.  The very same police that were staying with us.  The (indistinct) police from Alexandra, this it the people who were doing that.  Those are the people who started the violence and killing our children and they started the whole violence because children got angry, there was no need for them to go and guard the hostel and kill the child from the apartheid family.  Why did they kill him.  They killed him because they knew he was a leader of the youth.  I would say that they are the ones who started the violence within the community.  If they don't come Mtebi and Sindani, these two people one of them, Sam who have already died, he has followed the children that he killed.  However Sindani is still alive.  We are very much angry about this because one child from Tembisa was also a leader.  He is the one who was calling people around the children, organising them to go and burn his house because he was  angry because his mother had left him behind.  This Sindani came to me to tell me that he has not finished the killings, they are still going to kill and Mtebi himself came to say
ALEXANDRA HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
8 MADLANA
the very same words.  They said they are coming to kill all the young kids and the dogs and they are also coming to kill the leaders.  Therefore I don't think there will be any reconciliation or forgiveness because today the police in Alexandra, they promote crime because they eat together with these criminals.  They are crooks, they are still doing the very same things that they used to do and therefore I don't think I will ever forgive police.  (Witness upset).