TESTIMONY_GIVER:
  And then they started beating the chief using the sticks.  They beat him nearly to death and I was the one who stopped them because I realised that he was going to die.  We left for home.  What I was expecting was that police will come for us because we've beaten the chief.  What we heard afterwards is that the chief said he's not going  to report the matter to the police, he will come back for us.  It was on the 16th of December when we beat the chief and we heard that he was coming for us.  On the 22nd of December we didn't see any police.  Nothing happened.  The owner of the shop Sikhumbuzo Mdlalose organised people that they must burn the Cele family's house.  On the 26th of December, my house was burnt.  After they burnt my house, we were stranded.  We didn't have a place to stay.  We went and stayed with my sister.  What surprised me was that Sikhumbuzo had shops there and he wasn't there when we started quarrelling or fighting with the chief - is that he was the leader now of the people who were coming to burn our house.  There were no people who came from far who burnt my house, my father's house, but they were people who were staying with them.