MRS GCABASHE
a Christian."  And they said, "We want money."  And they also said to me, "We want money."  And I was scared.  One of them stabbed me by knife and I was bleeding.  I got tired.  I was getting weaker.  I took money from my bag.  I had money inside a tin.  It was about R200,00.  I gave them this R200,00.  After I gave him this R200,00 he took my bag and he started throwing everything out and all the coins came out and he took them.  I held my hand because I was bleeding and I was getting tired.  My husband told him that he doesn't own a gun and my husband said, "Okay, let's go to the bedroom.  I'll give you the money."  I don't know what happened but what I heard is that one of them said, "Shoot," and that's when they started shooting.  I think they shot for about five times.  After that they came inside the house.  They wanted to shoot me.  I went to this guy who was holding a big machine gun and I said to him, "Really, what have we done?"  And one of them answered back and said, "Let me just hit this one with this hammer."  And one of them went to my bedroom and he started searching.  He found the girl who was hiding under the bed and I was crying.  I was begging them not to kill that girl because I told them that this girl just came from rural areas.  She just came here to help me.  She's not from this area.  And they said to me, "We don't want evidence or witnesses here," and that's when they started shooting at her.  And her intestines were outside.  Maybe this is something that I saw because I was scared and I was terrified but I think I saw intestines.  They took everything that belongs to me and my husband inside the house - television, my clothes, my husband's cloths.   They went to the kitchen, they ate my food and they were throwing everything down.  They took cool drinks and they drank because I was selling cool drinks.  They also took other stuff.  And I heard after they left and when I heard that there was no noise any longer, I went to the bedroom.  I called my husband and there was no answer.  I went closer.  I shook him and I realised that he was dead.  I went to another bedroom.  I called this other woman, Mrs Mnconco.  I heard her answering very softly and I said to her, "Oh, are you still there?"  She said, "Yes, I am."  When I arrived where she was, I discovered that she can't do anything.  I told her that they've killed my husband and I told her that he's gone.  And she was crying I told her, "Don't cry because they might come back because other stuff which they took from my house, it's still outside.  They might come back to fetch it."  So Mrs Mnconco said to me they shot her and one bullet came from the back and out to this 15-year-old girl to her cheek.  They had already set that bedroom alight and Mrs Mnconco tried to extinguish the fire.  We had a bottle of water in that bedroom and this 15-year-old girl took this bottle and tried to extinguish the fire.  Other stuff had burnt.  I said to this 15-year-old girl she must go out and tell people that we are injured and my husband is now dead.  It was at about 8 o'clock.  This thing started at about 6.00pm.  I didn't realise that this girl was confused because she seemed not to understand whatever I was saying to her and then I decided to go to my neighbour's.  I went to one of my neighbours.  I told them that my husband has been killed and they said to me, "There's nothing we can  /do because