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clothes." We searched his belongings and we discovered thathis shirt was not there, and then his pair of trousers was not there. We toldthe police at Botshabelo the clothes that were missing, and they said - theykept quiet for a minute, and I said to my brother's wife she should go to Botshabeloand find out what happened. They didn't want to tell me on the telephone. Whenshe got to Botshabelo they discovered that it was Thoboko, he was in the mortuary.His head was disfigured, he didn't have an eye. They came back to me and theywanted to tell me the news. Even if they could tell me the story they were alreadycrying, and they told me that Thoboko was dead and they found him at BotshabeloMortuary. Immediately I was taken to the hospital to be admitted. We found himon the 27th of July. We buried him on the 27th of July. I wanted to find outwill I be released to attend his funeral. The doctor said, "No, no problem,we'll give you a permission to go and bury him, and then after the funeral youcome back to the hospital." On the 27th it was a Saturday. We went to bury him.It wasn't a smooth funeral. The Bophutatswana Police were shooting at the oldpeople with tear gas, people were running, and they said the corpse should goback. We were on our way to the cemetery. We didn't go back, we forced out waythrough to the cemetery. Then we were told that the minister should conductthe ceremony very fast so that we can disperse. We buried him and we went backhome. And I asked, "Who actually did this?" and then I was told, "Three white- three policeman, white of them, did this." Seemingly Thoboko and his friendswere looking for a place where there was a party, and they couldn't find theplace.  Unfortunately they knocked at the white man's house. It wasPiet Buys, Hendrick Myburgh and Johnny Grant. They took him in to the truck,they took him to Botshabelo, and that's where they assaulted him and killedhim. They even burnt his bank book.