MRS LEBAKENG
I am Zolifilo Lebankeng. I am here on behalf of my brother Bimbo Matabane, and relating to his death.  My brother Matabane left on a Friday, after finishing his Std 10 examinations. He said he is going to the Colloseum.  I refused, but he said he was being accompanied by Bimbo, I cannot disappoint them, I have to go with them.   I did not want him to go, but I could not convince him.  Seeing that
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he was accompanied by friends, I allowed him to go.  We did not see him on the Saturday and the Sunday, but on Monday policemen came to find out from us where he is. We told them we don't know but his best friends are Bimbo and Zandi.  They said to us these children went to the mine with the intention of robbery, but they are dead, and we must make sure that at eight o'clock we must be at the Government mortuary in Krugersdorp, and a minute after eight we will not be able to find them. We did as they said.  When we got to that Government mortuary they were placed on top of a table.  Their bodies were torn apart.  His leg was broken off, it was placed next to his body. If you didn't know Bimbo you wouldn't be able to identify him.  We were also not certain at some stage.  We were sure because we knew what clothes he was wearing when he left.  That the one thing that made us certain that that was his body. 
 As time passed the policemen came to ask us where he is.  Mr Nkosi came in and I said to him you killed him, what else do you want.  The white man who accompanied him said you are a wise kaffir. I just kept quiet.  During the night vigil they came again and they said to my father he must come and tell them where his child is.  I said to him leave my father, he knows nothing.  At that time my father was travelling all over the country, he knew nothing about Nthingu.  
 Time passed and we went to court.  When we got to the court their lawyer was Priscilla Jana.  We don't know how those children got to the mine, but how can children try to rob a mine because there is no money at the mine. That was the first question we asked ourselves. At the court they had his watch and a ball-point pen.  They said that those are 
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the things that showed us that this is Nthingu who had an intention to rob the mine.  When we asked how were they going to rob the mine.  Then they decided to change their statements and they said to us they had bombs and these are the same bombs that killed them, because they were trying to test them.
 Mr Nkosi came back later and when he came back - I don't remember what happened afterwards, but I told Mr Nkosi that please leave us alone, because we don't know what happened to that child.  That was the end.