NOMAKULA EVELYN ZWENI
We never rested after that, my husband use to sleep sometimes at work.  Sometimes he would come during the day or even at night, I always.  I was always expecting the police.  They use to say you - you - you think you clever, you - one day you'll get what you looking for, that's what they said to me.  Now after that there was a little silence after that as - now in 1976 it was the youth's turn.
I saw the policeman, I saw them coming, I knew they coming to me.  They asked me if now you have started a grand - they said is that an ANC.  They said this is just - is this the same thing, just beat up a black woman.  They beat me up, the boers that day, my ears were totally closed.
They were slapping my face they would beat my head up.  And I just wait for the next beating.  Each time they - they hit me, each after every blow, I will just for the next one.  But after a while - after a while I lost my energy.  That group left and then a new group came in again of the boers.
They told me that we think we are clever, you say - you say have the land, where do you think you have the land from.  I said to them we have the land, this land is ours - I am going to say that until I die.  Until I get under the grave, I don't want  [indistinct] in front of my face, because our blood is one, we are all created by God.
I told him until the very last day, because a boer treats a dog better than a human.  He will - he will treat a dog much-much better than a human being.  He will give you food in a tin, just like a bandiet, this is my home.  I was born here, I don't have a home abroad.  I will never go anywhere else.  I was - in 1976 they said to me you, have you started again.  I said just leave me alone, he said beat her up again, beat her up again, that is how I was beaten up so much and I was fighting back.
My ribs were sore,  my back was sore, everything was just sore.  One of the woman gave me pills.  The boers now came again, they came to take me to Bellville.  There is a little - there is a forest just beyond Bellville at one o'clock they beat me up and I was fighting back, and I told myself if God want's me to die, today I am going to die.
I am going to fight back, I fought back until these two fingers got injured, these two fingers do not work anymore.  One kicked me up - kicked me here, a car approached us, I was red, my face was swollen everything was just swollen - every part of me was swollen.  I couldn't hear anything.