MRS GCABASHE
17B/17      "and 12th May of the same month.  On the 11th, or thereabouts, my husband was to attend a Supreme Court matter, in which he was a respondent.  The said MP was the applicant in the matter, and it centred around that my husband had proclaimed publicly that the Member of Parliament was running a hit squad group called the, "A Team", a notorious and heavily-armed group that terrorised and murdered the community, particularly youth activists.  As a member of the Clermont Advisory Board, my husband was at the forefront of a campaign to prevent Clermont from being put under KwaZulu Government.  My husband became unpopular with the KwaZulu Government and particularly the said Member of Parliament, as a result of his views and his support for the UDF.  In 1990 it emerged that a KwaZulu Member of Parliament had been responsible for the murder of my husband and other prominent Clermont leaders.  He was formally charged in the Supreme Court in Pietermaritzburg with a 22-year old accomplice, Msizi Hlophe.  I was a State witness during the trial and, as a result, I received numerous death threats.  I had to move from Clermont and could not effectively run the businesses my husband had owned.  I even had to disguise myself from time to time.  The situation was grave and the prospect of death did not seem remote.  The situation,