MARINA GELDENHUYS
As you all know I was very young.  I had just left school and it was my first job, I was working for the defence force, for the Air Force, and my youth was lost very suddenly.  I was forced to grow up very quickly.  ..(tape ends)  ... at the defence force.  It was an act of cowardice which was committed and it damaged and injured more civilians than anybody else.  Up until this day nobody from government actually did anything after this incident, and on the 20th of next month it will be 13 years ago that it happened.  There were defence force members, personnel who received compensation, who are still receiving medical assistance, and I as a civilian who was working for the defence force received medication, medical help and
JOHANNESBURG HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
5 M GELDENHUYS
treatment and assistance whilst I had a medical aid, but what happens today?  We are growing older, we still have problems, who do we turn to for help?  There is nobody to help us.