M S HASSIAN HAFFEJJE
Yes. There was a - the police came. They took statements from my wife, because she was nearest to the scene.  We recorded crimen injuria.  And they took it.  We told them to remove the pig as well, which they did. I had to shampoo my whole shop about five times over that afternoon and the following day, the Sunday. Monday morning I received a phone call from the local police to say that I must go and fetch my pig. I said my pig?  The pig belongs to one of your guys, one your right-wingers and you people know who it is.  We have given you a name, we have furnished you with names.  But they themselves, the police themselves seemed to me are afraid of these right-wingers as well, for one reason or another.  I said all right, that pig doesn't belong to me, I am so sorry, but I am getting hold of my lawyer in Klerksdorp, and through him I am getting through the Transvaal Attorney-General and taking further steps, see KLERKSDORP HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
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what he has got to say about it. Oh, no, quickly they changed their story.  No, no, then all right, we will let you know, leave the pig in the pen where it is behind the police station, which they did.  
 In the meantime this became news all over.  The Press was full of it.  The boycott ended the week thereafter.  The pig story carried on.  
 The man appeared, a certain Mr Fourie appeared in court one or twice, it was postponed, and then a remarkable thing happened.  Two days, on the Monday I had to appear in court, my lawyer from Human Rights, I believe was already - I must just also mention this, that there were a sprinkling of Whites in Bloemhof, who came to me and disassociated themselves from this cruel and dirty thing.  There were a few that came, I must say this.  They gave me their hand, they said they are sorry, this is not the Christian way, for which I am thankful.
 In all this melee, I must also say, it was maybe a sergeant, a Sgt Viljoen, from the SAP in Bloemhof, who was with his girlfriend then, but now he is married of course, to the same woman, I think it is Marietjie, if I am not mistaken, were also very helpful and tried to speed up this case.  
 In any case, let me go back to where we were when I stopped.  Two weeks before that, one of the right-wingers just came to my shop and said withdraw this case, because at that stage, by now it had reached international proportions, Afrikaans papers and English papers and the TV, all were full of it.  I said I cannot do it without consulting our religious leaders of our community, my lawyers and most of all my wife, which he allowed. He said he will come back at 
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a later stage, after an hour or two or in the afternoon, which he did.  When he came back in the afternoon, after we had consulted our respective fellow members and so forth, we said all right, we will withraw the case on condition, that is if you give us an apology in writing Monday morning at the court, magistrate's court, in the presence of your lawyer and our Human Rights lawyer and our religious leaders.  Then we shall accept your apology. After all, if God can forgive,  who are we not to forgive.