TEMBINKOSI TOM
In 1986 in Grahamstown the police came to my house, they were known as the Special Police.  They came to my house which was about quarter to nine.  They kicked the door.  We were all - our family was in the house at that time.  When my mother went to the door they kicked the door and together with her, Toto Mankayi together with his colleagues came in.  One of them was Tobile Nobebe.  They came to me and they beat me.  My mother tried to defend me.  They said they are going to shoot me.  They pointed a gun at my mother.  They took me outside because my mother couldn't defend me.  They didn't say what they were beating me for.  They took me outside, the assaulted me saying that they are going to shoot me and they are going to kill me.
 Toto Mankayi said that he wanted to kill ten people.  They were assaulting me all this time.  I managed to escape and I ran away to another street, End Street and I went to one house, no.4 in End Street.  At that time I saw that I was severely beaten up and I hid under a bed.  While I was still under a bed Tobile Nobebe came in.  He pulled me out because he asked from one little child where I was, and the child told him that I was under a bed.  He pulled me out.  He took out a gun and he shot me while I was lying down.  He dragged me into the street and he left me there.
 When he was going to shoot me for the second time children from that house they cried and they begged him not to kill me.  He left chasing these children together with his colleagues.