ELIZABETH BIBI
Michael Bibi got lost after at school Themba Labantu.  That is where he went to school.  He was in matric there.  When we realised that Michael was not at school, first of all.  I would just like to start all over again.  I thank the Commission for giving me this opportunity to talk about my child who disappeared.  We would send Michael to school at Themba Labantu.  He was in standard ten at the time.  We were not aware that he was not at school, because in August he came home requesting an examination fee.  His father gave it to him.  He went back to school.  He said that he will, my husband said that he is going to circumcise my son in December but that, but he was not going to tell him that.  He was not going to warn him of this.
 We had a tuck-shop.  We were going to go to church and somebody told us that Michael had come home in a red car and there were others in the car.  When we asked what he said and why he had come home, apparently he did not say anything, he just greeted and he took five Lexington cartons from our tuck-shop.  He took some money and back to the shop and the car left with him.  A small police car from the Special Branch came.  It was a heft policeman that came to us.  He was slightly crippled.  It was a Xhosa man.  He asked me if I was with, I knew Michael.  I, they asked where Michael was.  I said Michael is at school.  He was, this policeman was with another White one.  
 He then said somebody must go to his school at Themba Labantu.  The father went to the principal.  He said that the school principal said that they were there to educate children that were well mannered and not children who were not properly brought up.  The principal said that my husband  must go to the police to report that he had lost a child.  The police said exactly the same thing that the policeman had said.