MALOSI LEHOBYE
We were in an assembly and I was a leader addressing the students when the police came with many vehicles.  Your father trampled on the corpse on the stoep and then he gave orders.  I never led a group ...[no English translation] I have never done so. We were not destroying property we were on the assembly, then we were attacked by the police.
	I went to him and pleaded with him that the police should stop so that we will be able to negotiate.  That is what happened on that day.  I don't want you to say I don't know your father.  I don't know what is happening to you.  It was difficult for me to appear before this Commission to testify on behalf of the comrades who appear here.
	I'm pleading with you together with Mum and the family that apartheid divided various communities.  The Sebe brothers were not able to bury one another, the other one was afraid to go and see his mother on the sick bed because of apartheid.  
	You, Molope's family, because of the problems of apartheid, for a long time you were isolated.  ...[no English translation] that those kids who are behind me have nothing against you as people, together with your family.  We were in a fight, we were in a war.  It was a bad thing to have lost your father but the truth is we found ourselves in a situation of war.  	Two attempts were made on my life and that experience traumatised my family.  Like one of the comrades would have said, it would be happy that when we go on with our lives, that's what these applicants area saying to you.  The Committee will actually appreciate what we are trying to do.
	Like I said earlier on it is very difficult for me to come and testify particularly because I know that family.  I have been very, very close to the family you know, we worship together.  It's very difficult but I really have to do it and somebody of course must do what I am doing.  I thank you.