JABU JAMES MALINGA
Yes, I will talk, I am fine.  And Mtibi and Skieter and (indistinct) Van der Linde, they were in a green Chevrolet.  They called me, they said I must get into the car.  I wanted to know why.  They said you kaffir you mustn't ask a lot.  Get in.  Then I went inside the car and left off with them.  They took me into some bush in Alexandra where it is a highway at the moment.  They took some meat from the car, they said I must just go and get some wood for them.  I did as I was told.  And then they said I must make fire for them.  Thereafter they said I must braai the meat for them as well.  And thereafter they were eating and drinking alcohol.  They wanted to know why didn't I die on that day when I was shot.  I said I don't know.  They said you must tell us about your friends that you were with on that day and you must tell us about Tsetsi Mashini when you talked to him on that night at school, on the 15th June.  I must tell them what we were talking about.  I refused to tell them any details of our meeting.  Then they started beating me.  They said I knew too much, they will show me something that I don't know.  They handcuffed me and the fire was still burning at that time.  They took me towards the fire, they threatened to burn me should I not be prepared to talk the truth.  I didn't think that they would burn me or not.  Whilst they were assaulting me and the other one lifted my leg they dragged me towards this fire.  They started burning me, they said I must talk the truth.  I refused because I knew that should I tell the truth they will kill all my companions.  Then they burnt me.  I was dressed in an overall.  When they realised that I was
ALEXANDRA HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
6 MALINGA
burning they took something to extinguish the fire.  They extinguished the fire.  They said they wanted to know what we were doing on the 17th June.  They wanted the truth.  I still refused to tell them.  I was just being kicked, I was not aware of what was happening, I was unconscious at that moment.  I found myself at the clinic.  That is when I became conscious.  I can't remember what happened.