NAPHTHAEL TSHEMESE
It was after dinner on a Saturday, I was sleeping at home.  I heard a noise outside, I got up to find out what was happening.  When I got outside, my elder brother was there, Jackson Tshemese was there and the late Sophie.
There was harsh arguments in the air, I tried to intervene, as they were arguing there were more people coming towards our house.  Sophie then hit my grandfather on the hand, my grandfather then retaliated and slapped her, people then came.  The other were throwing - the others were throwing stones, we tried to take everybody inside because we realised we were being attacked.
Simon shot twice in the air,  as we were trying to get into the house, Simon Tshemese was standing at the door - he took his gun and shot the late Sophie.  We ran inside the house, shut the door, our house was being stoned at, at the time.  It was terrible - we took the stones that were thrown at us and we throw back to them outside.
It wasn't long in the mist of that chaos, I went - I went to one of the rooms and there was a tyre there that was already on fire.  I tried to put out the fire, Jackson then came to help me to put out the fire.  Eventually we managed.
All this time we were being stoned, our -somebody was trying to break down our door, I looked at my father, his face was full of blood, my mother was standing next to him - the turbulence continued.  I went to yet another room, there were babies there,  my sister's child and Simon's wife child.  We had to take these babies and hide them under beds, the mothers too.
I realised that all around our house was being stoned.  They then kicked down our door, Nelson then entered, he went straight to Simon.  He had an axe, he axed Simon, my father together with Jackson tried to intervene.  I tried together with my mother to put up the  door and close it again, but three more people entered - forcibly.  My mother and I pushed them out of the house.  I went back to the room where my father was, I tried to help them - we tried to take Nelson out of the house, eventually we managed.  Simon was full of blood everywhere as he was wounded, eventually Nelson left.
During this time our house was still being stoned.  We closed our door, they tried again to open it, but they did not manage to come in again.  They continued to stone our house, our windows were broken down, this continued for quite a while, then there was quite.  When I went to the bedroom, my brother was injured in the head, sitting down.  Simon was on the bed, full of blood, I tried to drag my brother towards the bed so that he would not be injured again.  I then left to help my grandfather.  Jackson was also full of blood on the face, my mother was injured too.
The stone throwing continued, we took the stones and threw them back in retaliation - I was not injured.  When I was fully conscious I realised that there was a fire by the door.  I jumped out of a window, I went to investigate what was going on.  As I went closer, I thought that it was my brother who was being burnt, but it was my father, he was terribly burnt.  I tried to take soil and put the fire out for a while.  Until eventually the fire was out.  I went to my grandfather's house, Simon was already there, he was lying on the floor, there was just blood.
I lifted Simon up - put him on the couch, when I got out of the house, I saw a light, it was a boer that worked with Simon, I told him what had happened we then took Simon to the police station.  The police then took them to the hospital,  police from De Aar came - they had come to investigate who the perpetrators were, I left with the police because I was not injured that much.  We went to fetch the people the perpetrators.  We then went to the police station, that is all I have to say.