MR J T MAZIBUKO
Well, as I have already explained it was in 1985 and at that time the whole country was in turmoil and Duduza, in particular, had a problem.  It was part of the ongoing struggle at that time.  There were no police at that time who were in Duduza.  Even though the police were not present in Duduza at that time, there were certain forces operating during the night and these forces were mainly bent on killing the people operating.  Today we do not have Saneli Tobela and today we also do not have Alex Balene.  All those people were attacked by hit squad.  The Tobela home was attacked and Sonto Tobela was our Secretary at the time and Saneli was additional member of COSAS and, when their house was attacked Sonto died instantly.  Alexander Balene was murdered by that hit squad which was operating in the location.  To confirm that there was a hit squad, there was a City Press article which showed that more leaders were to follow in the killings.  They also had a list of names and some of the names which appeared then are present today and as it was still like that there was Congress Mashweni which was from Kwatema and through that Congress as well as through Valley, Valley is my cousin, he is sitting on my right-hand side, and that there were MK members who were actually prepared to offer us some
assistance because we were vulnerable and he offered us help
in terms of weapons.  So we wholeheartedly accepted, accepted his offer and that event co-incided with the statement from ANC in exile saying that it will now train ANC cadres inside the country and duty operation, we were prepared to liberate our country by all means necessary.  So through Valley who was the local co-ordinator, these guys came, Mike, James and they said they will offer us weapons to defend ourselves and the community.  They offered us crash training, crash course training whereby we were taken to a mine dump.  We were three groups, basically, that was Duduza, Sakane and Kwatema and we gave those people, Mike and James, our names and addresses.  
 We went there and they demonstrated with the first hand grenade and we were, he threw the first one to show us how to throw it as well as the second one which was thrown by Valley and at the very same time we were told that we should choose our targets, that was on a Monday, preparing for attack on Tuesday, midnight.  Each and every township had its group, from each township had to choose its own target and attack at 12 o' clock.  So we met as a group and chose, we chose Stiff Namane's house as well as David Namane who were brothers.  The reason we chose these two people were that Stiff Namane was a councillor, an apartheid councillor.  David was implicated in these hit squad attacks and his brother too.  So, basically, at the time the community saw them as people or as obstacles towards our achievement of our goal.  
 So, we met Mike and James on Tuesday, we were given these hand grenades.  Funny enough, those hand grenades were not similar to the ones that he showed us at training, but 
nevertheless they said they are all the same, the instructions are the same.  So, coming back at training, we were shown how to throw a grenade.  You hold a grenade, you count three times, you pull the pin is one, is two, then Maponza is three.  So, on Tuesday we went to our respective targets.  When we got there 12 midnight we launched an attack.  We followed the instructions correctly and Sonto, and all of us at that time, but when we counted at one, by that time, at that time I was lying flat on the floor and thereafter I realised that I was full of blood and I had to run to Sandile Conrad house and ask for help and at the time I thought I had made the mistake.  
 When I got to Sandile's car, I got John Emlangeni, same injuries.  Then we went to Natalspruit Hospital.  That is when the security forces caught us and we were detained and discharged, but during our stay at hospital our families came and told us some of the people were weak, have fallen and that, in itself, proved that sinister forces were involved because people from Kwatema, Sakane and Duduza, were involved in this case, died and the targets that were meant, our targets, are still alive.  So, we realised that this is the hit squad that we were trying to run away from.  So, these people, all I can say, they were highly organised.   So we were charged, we went to court, we went to prison and we were found guilty and there is not even a single person who came forward to explain and we were found guilty.