NOSIPHO BLOSSOM MARWEZU
Mandisi is the younger one who arrested me.  The one who said 
we must go to Westbank is the elder one.  We could not even get visitors for two 
months.  They had arrested me, I was in pyjamas.  I was using the clothes that they 
provided me in prison.  I was three months pregnant.  Then the interrogation started.  
They took us one by one to Cambridge.  They asked me if I knew that COSAS had 
been banned.  I said yes.  So they asked me why I worked for COSAS even though it 
had been banned.  I said I did no such.  They then said that I was a member at, of 
COSAS at Qaqamba.  They asked if I know that the riots at Duncan Village were all 
inspired by Qaqamba students.  They asked who had burnt down a policeman's house. 
 I said I did not know.  
 They took me back to the cell.  They called me back.  I did not know I was 
going to go there.  I was going to Frere Hospital regularly at that time.  They said that 
I am supposed to go to the Frere Hospital.  I told them that I had no appointment 
there.  Nomsa's attorney, a co-prisoner, gave me her headscarf to put on.  I put it on.  
They took me to Cambridge to an office there.  Mr Mpumelelo Madliwa was there 
and Mpumelelo Nkonzombi.  They asked me who had burnt down his house.  I said I 
do not know.  They strangled me.  They pulled down my headscarf, put it around my 
neck.  The one pulled from the left and the other from the right.  I lost all strength.  I 
urinated on myself.  I was pregnant at the time.  
 They said I must tell the truth, who burnt the house down.  I said it was me.  
Who else?  I said by myself.  They told me that I was lying.  They put down the 
headscarf and they strangled me with their own hands.  They were not beating me up, 
just strangling me.  What happened is that my eyes went red.  They then took me to, 
back to Westbank Prison.  When I got there I was not taken to a cell where the others 
were.  I was taken to solitary confinement.  My eyes were red.  I saw nobody but the 
police.