THOMAS MANTHATA
At that time, there was an officer which I really didn't like.  When he came to visit people, they wouldn't even great him according to the old law.   And now, it was the difficulty that I face from those White people, because at times, they would fight me.  There's a child who came to me, who said, who want, whom I wanted to register.  They refused to register my child.  Other people used to be able to register their children but with me, they were fighting me, because of the truth.  I didn't want them to trouble other people and it was very, very difficult.  They wanted to banish me, to chase me away but they failed.  When I came here in Messina, I came in Messina in 1919.  I was only about twelve years.  Yes, I was about twelve years.  I came when I was a very young boy and I didn't even have a home when I came here in Messina.  Now, these foreigners came to harass me,  Auret.  And Auret didn't want to allow people here and this police came to me and the office people are the ones who used to harass me but because of God they eventually had to give up.  Some of them went away.  Some of them died and some of them are still alive but God is still keeping me alive to be on earth.  Thank you.