POLINA NOLESE MBALULA
We took the corpse, we were struggling and as we were trying to take her out, there was a policeman with a gun at the door.  Her son was outside and as he tried to go in, he came across this policeman with a gun.
 It was difficult for my husband to go and tell our relatives.  We then got a car from other comrades.   We took the corpse to the police station.
 There was a comrade called Quabane.  The police were arguing with this comrade and with myself.  As she had a baby, the police said that the corpse can breast feed the baby.  We then asked what we should do with the corpse.
 They said that we could do whatever we wanted to with it.  We left the corpse.  On the Monday morning the police continued with shooting around the township.  They would kick down doors.
 We were trying to report to the Venterstad police.  On the Monday they came to our house.  They kicked down the door, they ate food, they took food from the fridge and they ate.  The police would continuously come shooting.
 On the Tuesday they came yet again.  We were not at the house, we had gone to the mortuary.  They took my husband's bicycle.  They said that it is impossible for my husband to have such a bicycle, he must have stolen it.  They took it.
CRADOCK HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE
4 PN MBALULA
 It was difficult to report these cases to the police, because they had taken somebody's life already.
 They also detained a lot of children from the township.  There was no law, no decorum.  They then took my husband to Cape Town for an operation.  He eventually came back.
 When he came back, he was not covered, he was naked.  He was at the back of a bakkie.  I then rushed to the bakkie.  It was a White policeman that was there.  My husband was no longer alive.
 We went to the mortuary where he was.  I could not recognized him as he had bled a lot.  There was blood all over his head.  I tried to investigate and I tried to get help because I had children to look after and also this baby.
 I kept on going to the Magistrate, the Magistrate sent me to the Social Workers.  The Social Workers could not help me either.  I was ill of health, high blood pressure, heart ailment, even mentally, I was affected.  My husband was not working.  He would get temporary jobs.  I had no money.  We had to borrow money from our neighbours to bury my husband.
 People wanted their money back and I could not give it back to them.  I asked the Magistrate if the law could not help me, he said no.  He then said that I must get money from Social Workers to pay my debts.
 From there I would be sent back to the police station.  The police then sent me to a police Commander.  I wanted a Death Certificate because the Social Workers needed it.  They said that I could not get it before the case was over.   They needed to ascertain whether my sister-in-law was guilty or was it the police that were in the wrong.  I had this baby to look after.   Because I had no help, I had to
CRADOCK HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE
5 PN MBALULA
take these children to my sister-in-law's ex-husband.
 A Red Cross car came to my house, but there was no one at home, we were at work.
 When they got to my house, they gave me R600-00 and food.  They said that they could not help me any further.  They said that they would feed me for three months.  They were then informed that there is more to the family.
 The R600-00 was divided amongst the members of the family, I was left with R300-00.  My husband ...