JOHAN SMIT
I got a phone call from my uncle who stayed in Malvern in Durban and he told me that my son was in an accident and I had to come down and see him.  I thought that it might be a car accident because he didn't explain what type of accident it was.  My wife was doing shopping and I had to find her.  I phoned a couple of shops and eventually one of the shops found her and told her that she had to return immediately.  In the meantime my uncle phoned me again and said it was quite serious, we've got to come down.
 By this time it was already late in the afternoon because I couldn't find my wife.   I thought he thought that I wasn't interested in coming down to Durban.  But when Annamarie arrived we immediately went down to Durban.  But by then we still didn't know there was a bomb blast.  We only found out that it was a bomb blast when we arrived in Durban in the hospital.  I can't remember the name of the hospital. They told us that my son's not there but they know of a little boy who was in the mortuary.  By that time, it was very late, the mortuary was already closed and I went to my uncle's house.  It might be that I only found out then 
JOHANNESBURG HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
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that it was a bomb blast.  I can't really remember.
 We went to see him the following morning but I didn't want to believe that it was my son that was lying there.  I asked them to take him out of the glass case so that I could see his chin.  Under his chin he had a small little cut which he got when I accidentally dropped him when he was a child.  I still really didn't want to believe it and my wife and my father had to convince me it was my child.
 Then after that we came up to Pretoria.  We buried him in Pretoria.  I told newspapers that I thought my son was a hero because he died for freedom for people that - I would prefer to speak Afrikaans.  He died in the cause of the oppressed people.  A lot of people criticised me for this.  They thought that I was a traitor and they condemned me, but I still feel that way today.  I feel that few White people in this country would ever have  ...(tape ends) they really struggle, they'd buy small amounts of paraffin and really didn't have much money.  I would never have come to this awareness otherwise.