OLGA NYATHI
I come from Tokoza and I live with my mum and my brothers and sisters. My mum is working, I'm not employed.  In August 1993 we were at home when the fight erupted and we saw the Zulus coming to us, telling us to get out of the house and my two brothers were not at home and my mum was asked where they were.  She told them that they had gone to visit but they were adamant saying that she was lying and demanded that she tell the truth and tell them where were. She told them that they had gone to Springs to visit their grandmother and she did not know what to say further because they didn't believe her.  They informed her that they were going but that she'd have to tell the truth when they returned.
 I was renting a room at Khumalo Street.  They came back at night to my mother's place and she told them the same thing that she had told them earlier but they were adamant that she was not speaking the truth.  As I was still in my room that I was renting, Sibongile came on Friday, Sibongile Nyathi, and said that David had been shot by the Stability. I asked her where and she told me at Nkosi Street at Mr Mbajwa's place.  I asked her with whom he was and she said that he had been with Bongani.  Upon enquiring what had happened she mentioned that he was about to iron his clothes when he was shot.  
 I immediately went to report this to my mum and gave her the news as well as the caspar registration number.  Mr Mbanja at Nkosi Street is the one who took the caspar registration number. They were telling the people not to come close to the scene.  Bongani was with him and he fled and Mum she would go back home and see what to do as she was at work when I had gone to her.  When I got there I was told to go to the hospital in Natalspruit and I found them busy taking him out of the caspar. I ran to ask why they shot him to which they replied that they did so because they thought he was a comrade.  I asked them whether the comrades were labelled and they asked why he did attend the school the previous day. I replied that they should go to the school to find out whether he was a student there, as he is a student enrolled at this particular school whose name I gave them.  David lifted up his hand and he said to me that they covered his mouth with a towel in an attempt to extract the bullet from his body and there was a river of blood where he was lying.
 They had covered his face with one of the jackets trying so hard to extract the bullet from his body and asked me how we were related. I told them that I am the sister to which they responded that they didn't know that he was a student and thought he was a comrade.  They took him into another room while I remained fighting with the other police, white police outside insisting on asking them why he was shot.  He repudiated the fact that he had done the shooting but he pointed at some other black policeman that had fired the shot.  They asked my name which I gave them. 
 He was taken to the theatre and David was crying and asking what was happening.  I tried to comfort him and told him that the nurses were surrounding him and that the people who attacked him had already left.  Now a policeman kept guard and I asked him why he had to do that, was it necessary. He confirmed that it was because on discharge he would have to be arrested. His arm was swollen and I asked the nurse for the cause of this but she responded that we should not worry and panic about that as everything was under control.  Now when my mum came back from work I told her that.  She was approached by some Zulus who told her that her child who was a comrade had been shot and that he would die, and had already, in fact, died. They also told her to take her child and bury him.
 The following day we went to the police station and we talked to the station commander who said that that was a pathetic story that the police did to her child. And we were wondering why the police were patrolling in the streets of Tokoza because the situation had calmed down.  My mum asked the station commander, who actually said to her that she should sue the police that undertook the whole attack and unfortunately we did not have the money to do that.