MRS MATLANA
The others are all grown up.  He was my last boy.  The one before him is Woesi is also married now.  Bongani was my last boy.  The others were daughters.  I would like to say that for me to forgive, and I don't see the opportunity of me forgiving anyone, I suffered a lot because of this because I didn't understand why the children were killed but there is just one important thing I would like to say before the Commission, before our children and the whole country.  At the beginning of the struggle the
ALEXANDRA HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
10 MADLANA
struggle started at Wits University within the white community where white students threw away their books not even a single of them was tear-gassed or killed.  However, when black children started fighting for their liberation they were shot by guns.  We had to bury a lot of people killed by these guns and I would like to say I have buried a lot, I am only left with four children. However, when their children started to fight for their rights they were not killed.  However, our children when they started the very same thing they were killed since from 1976 up to 1986.  They never buried any one or where we find them coming to a mass funeral saying that these white people were on strike and we shot them or killed them.  Even today they still do that, they fight for their rights but they are not tear-gassed or killed.  Things like that we can find out that there was this apartheid system working within the black community, we were taken as dogs, baboons and all such things.  These dogs and baboons which work for them, which bath their children, cook for their children however they are still content to kill them.