PITSO JOSEPH HLASA
Many things were committed by members of the UDF and we just ignored them.  Sipho Komezulu was on his way to work and he was kidnapped.  He was working for a trade union in Nuhaza.  He was kidnapped in the morning and it was only after a few days that he was discovered.  He was brutally murdered and his corpse was covered with stones.
	I say it's a turning point because it was the first comrade to be brutally killed.  While organising for his funeral in Zola, I was out with, it was after the night vigil on the day of the funeral, when we came back comrade Komezulu's coffin was burnt, it was thrown in the street, there were no mourners and the fence was down and this affected me a lot.
	I did not understand how it came about that a person be killed and to be killed the second time in the coffin on the day of the funeral.  We went to the graveyard Avelon.  We left with this partly burnt coffin to bury him.  We came back after the ceremony and we walked through Tladi Molesani.  The comrades from the UDF attacked us because we were now going back home and there was no convoy anymore, they attacked us. 
	The car that was severely attacked was one that was transporting the late Martin Mohau.  He had been released a few months before the funeral and he was also brutally killed on the same day of the funeral.  We lost Martin Mohau.  He'd just been released a few months from Robben Island.
	Myself, I realised that the position of the organisation not to retaliate would not be of any assistance to me because I've witnessed people dying brutally and we've been waiting for the leadership to tell us what steps to take.  On the other hand the UDF was continuing with the series of attacks, now this was my turning point.