MRS MTSWENI
I stayed overnight at the Kalafong Hospital.  I was not able to leave my son behind in that condition and I slept on the bench at Kalafong hospital so that I could see him the following day.  The following morning I went to wash my face in the toilets, the hospital toilets and I went to see him once more.  I tried to speak to him.  One eye gouged out and he could hear my voice.  He knew I was his mother and I was told to go to Pretoria.  I got to Ogies and came back this way again.  After a few days a certain policeman by the name of  Gramel came to me and told me that I should go to court on a certain day.  I wanted to find out from Gramel as to who opened up a case or who submitted a  statement with regard to my son's injuries but he could not answer me.  I asked, who injured my son ?  He told me it was a certain man by the name of July Mtetwa and I asked him where July was.  He said July was out on bail, on five hundred rands bail.  I don't have a clear recollection of the time that he stayed at the hospital.   I think it was either one and a half months or two months.   When he came back he submitted a statement himself.  Even though he submitted a statement the matter went no further.  After about a year had lapsed, it's only then that the matter proceeded to court and we came to Ermelo.  I accompanied him to Ermelo and the matter proceeded.  We were addressed by the Regional Magistrate.  I think what he said that I can really testify to having heard, he asked my son as to how he identified the attacker.  My son said, I identified him because he had hit me twice at the back of my head and he turned around and he held him and the Magistrate asked as to whether there was any form of light that enabled him to identify his attacker.  He said there was some form of light.  It was not totally dark and he could identify him as July.  Thereafter others came and they also attacked him.  That's when he lost consciousness and he could not identify the rest but he knew about July.  When he came to he crawled to a certain woman's house who was staying in Davela and the woman who held my son.  He called the neighbours and the neighbours helped.  The Magistrate proceeded to tell him that he was not able to positively identify his attacker.   I don't know who the Magistrate knew it.  I think she'll proceed to say what happened thereafter.