VUSI LINDA HLENGWA
I'm referring to myself because I was the one who was at home because my brother was not staying at my place at that time and all the members of my family had to hide themselves, that's when they threw in the bombs inside the house.  I also shot back without aiming at anyone in particular, I just wanted them to get scattered and I wanted to protect my family and I wanted the attackers to run away.  My gun was a self-made gun and whenever this gun goes off anyone would be scared because of the sound it emits.  The attackers realised that I was also fighting for my life, they all scattered.  They ran away and when they ran away we were able to see as to how much the damage was.  When I looked around I realised that part of the wall had fallen off as well as the curtains and I went to the back of the house -  I saw some petrol bombs.  We collected all the evidence and we sat and waited to see as to whether they were going to come back but luckily they did not come back, that's when I realised that it's very important or imperative upon us or upon myself to protect myself and that was the way that I was going to protect myself because our neighbours were scared to come out whenever these attacks took place and it was ...(intervention)