MRS NGWENYA
In 1983, I was a student at Nowawe in Berlin.  I used the half past six train to go to school.  On the 4th of August I was getting ready to go to school.  While I was going to the kitchen I heard gunshots and I fell down as a result of the gunshots.  I don't know who did this.  I tried to ask for help.  I went to the toilet where I lost consciousness.  I think people found me there and took me to Cecilia Makiwane Hospital where I spent a week.  I had been shot in my shoulders as well as my arm and I had a cut in my ear.   I was treated in hospital and discharged after that.  I was not feeling well and in 1984 I went back to Cecilia Makiwane Hospital where they operated on me.  They found another bullet which was left behind after 1983.
 In 1984 I received a letter saying that I have to pay a certain amount of money for the costs of the court.  I went to Mr Siwisa because I needed help and told him that I was the one who was shot but I had to pay money.  Siwisa said I have to pay this amount of money because I didn't appear in court and the people who were supposed to represent us, didn't.  I paid the money.  
 In 1987 I went back to Mr Siwisa because I wanted to go back to school.   I had to pay Fifteen Rand per week during that period.  I asked Mr Siwisa to help me to go back to school and after I completed my schooling I would pay this money back.  He wrote letters asking for permission for me to go back to school.  After three years, I was working for the DEC when I received a letter saying that I had to pay the balance of this money.  I then went back to Mr Siwisa and requested him to write a letter to these people to inform them that I can only pay Fifty Rand per month.  In 1993 I finished paying this money.