MRS MATLANA
Excuse me, there is something which I haven't stated in my statement.  After the funeral on the very same night there were my daughters Zakele and some other friends.  The white policemen came and took them away. After Good Friday we had to go and bail them out. Now I am coming to talk about the Ama Cabasa gang.  When we arrived in court
ALEXANDRA HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
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the police there they were talking to each other saying let's work quick today because we have to go, saying that they were going to do their things.  On that day the court was empty, there were only a lot of children around.  One of the police whom I know said today we are going to enter the township and I asked him what is in the township and he said today we are visiting the township.  As they were saying like that they were trying to say that they were coming to attack in the township, killing people.  I said clearly that the burning of people, especially this young man who was burned working from (indistinct) it wasn't because of the gangsters, they were burnt by police because when they were passing with their vans they were carrying petrol bombs in the vans.  They were holding axes, singing.  I would like to state categorically that the burning of people and houses it wasn't done by the Ama Cabasa gang it was the police.  The Wynberg (indistinct) police, Bramley, all of them they came as a group along Selbourne Street.  When they were about to take a corner coming towards my house direction, however they turned and took 7th Avenue, crossing through 6 and one of them direct them not to come to my place. I walked behind them trying to see where they were going with these arms and petrol bombs.  That was the time they went to burn a house, number 31 and number 32.  Thereafter when they finished they came down and then they went to 2nd Avenue and burned, this man was working at Benny Goldberg.  The next day when I went to 2nd Avenue, because this man who was burnt was my relative, these white people were taking pictures, they asked us did you see the people who burnt this one and I told him straight why do you ask us because you were the people who were running around burning these people with
ALEXANDRA HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
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your police.  You are the one who sent the police, the black police, you coming behind them, that they must come and kill their own nation - race.  How are they going to stay in the township if they kill their own people?