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It was on a Monday morning, before this all
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 started.  My brother had gone to school, then Wellington came back after eight o'clock.  I asked him why he had come back, he said there is nobody at school.
 I saw a group of children going to another school.  I thought that maybe there is a short break at the school.  A little while after Wellington had arrived, Vincent then came, my younger brother.
 He then asked for Wellington, because he said there are people here who have come to burn him.  I then warned him to hide either under the bed or in the wardrobe.  When I looked through the window, there was a whole horde of people.
 He then ran away to our next door neighbours.  Then a whole lot of children asked for my brother, I said he is not here.  Then they started burning down the house, throwing everything around.
 There were three babies crawling in the house and others too.  I forgot the children.  Mean while the older children had taken the crawling ones.  The little girl crawled towards the fire, then I helped another little girl to go into the house, through the window, to take out the little baby.
 I then became unconscious.  The police came, White police.  My cousin's sister came, the police then asked us where we were going to go.  My cousin then said she would take us to her house.  We went to Luxolweni, the whole family.
 Mziwakhe left with the White men, the White police.  After dinner, I had to go to my mother in hospital.  I slept, not having gone to the hospital, because I was very tearful.  I could not sleep really, I was kneeling down.  I heard a knock, I opened the door, it was Mziwakhe, the car
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had brought him in.
 I then said Mziwakhe must lie down next to the children.  I asked Mziwakhe what was going on, he said that he did not know, except that Xoliswa said I am an informer.  We slept.
 The next day we were taken by the police.  These police were from Port Elizabeth.  We then gave in statements.  A police van then took us to Somerset East, there were a lot of children that had been released from Cradock.
 They asked Mziwakhe if he knew the other children.  He said yes, he did.  He then was asked to identify who had burnt his house down, he said he did not know who it was.
 We came back from Somerset East, we never went to a court of law again.  In 1985, the week our leaders died, I heard in the 5 am news, I had a premonition.  By then Mziwakhe was working in Uitenhage.
 On the Saturday, there was a service at the Methodist Church for our leaders.  Mziwakhe came after dinner.  I said to him he must go back home, at least for a few hours before he goes back to Port Elizabeth.  Mziwakhe then went.
 I could not sleep that night.  I just didn't feel well.  At 1 am there was a knock on the door.  My son, who was about 10 years old, Sindile Ngubo then came to the house, crying, saying that our house has been burnt down yet again.
 I was shaking.  The morning I went home.  Our house was totally burnt down.  There were glasses and plates on the floor.
 I went to the police and I found him at the charge office.  I asked what was going on, he said that he just heard a petrol bomb in the dining room.  He then said he saw four men and then the fire just expanded to the other rooms.
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 I asked him what he was going to do, he said he would run away because his wife was from Transkei, he said he would go to the Transkei.
 Then a friend of mine came.  He said that we must go to the houses where the Cradock Four were from.  Go to each house to give sympathy and reverence.