MR SWANEPOEL
I got up at about five o'clockin the morning and I had a shower, I opened some of the windows in the house,I opened the back door and the front door and I made tea and took my wife sometea in the bedroom.  We were sitting on the bed - may I just go back a littlebit, early that morning, just before I got up, the one dog who sleeps in thebedroom with us, there are two who sleeps in the bedroom, one dog rushed tothe window and barked.  I got up and I went to have a look, but I didn't seeanything.  Then later, I got up and washed and took my wife some tea in bedand while we were drinking tea, I was sitting on her side of the bed, and Ilooked out in the direction of which I would leave the house, I had alreadyput on my socks and shoes and I was weighing medicine for the chickens and Ithen left the house, it was about quarter past six in the morning.  In eachhand, I carried a little bowl of medication and approximately 15 metres fromthe front door, I heard a muttering.  There was a cement pond surrounded byflowers and I saw man standing, jumping up from the flowers and I actually thoughtit was one of my own labourers and I wondered why he was up so early, what hewas doing on our property so early because it wasn't yet time for work.  I openup the cages first thing in the morning and only then do the labourers arriveand the man approached me and said that I should halt.  As he approached me, Mr Thobejane also jumped up amongst the flower bed and when the first man wasabout five metres away from me, he aimed a pistol at me and when Mr Thobejanestood up, I saw that he had an AK47.  I then stood still, I first wanted torun and then the person with the pistol said I should stand still.  As I wasstill thinking what I was about to do, I took the two bowls of medicine andI bent forward and put it down on the path in front of me, he once again toldme to stand still.  He then told me to go back to the house and he pushed thepistol in the small of my back and we turned around and walked towards the house. Mr Thobejane walked next to us with the AK47 aimed at the dog, I have a StaffordshireTerrier dog who stays outside the house on the smallholding, and he kept thisweapon aimed at the dog.  At the door, the person with the pistol led me inthe direction of the room, we first entered into an entrance hall, we then turnedright into a passage and at the end of the passage, on the right hand side,is the main bedroom.  When I got to the bedroom door, I saw my wife standingin the middle of the room and I knew I had to do something.  I then jumped intothe room, and as I did so, I slammed the door shut, but as I did so, I hearda shot go off and it missed me by millimetres, it missed my arm.  As the doorbanged shut, my wife onto the floor in front of me.  I knew that she was dead. I stepped over her, I stepped over her body and went to my safe because I knewthat this was trouble.  Whilst I was standing in front of the safe to unlockit, shots were fired at me through the window from outside.  By the time I gotmy weapon out of the safe, I heard people shouting at each other outside andthen there was quiet.  I first looked out of the window to make sure if therewas anybody outside, there was nobody and then I went out, I left the houseand there was nobody outside.