MARY BURTON
And we are aware of the fact that it was a time when there was a great deal of conflict in Mossel Bay and other people were killed and injured on that day too.  Please tell us about what happened to your husband.
MS BEZUIDENHOUT;
It was the 10th of the 8th month 1976 the after around about five o'clock.  My husband came home from work and he realised that there was a lot of chaos and unrest in Mossel Bay and then he ran from the bus stop to his brothers house so that his brother could take him home, because it  was too dangerous to go to his own home.  And on the corner as he was crossing a road, they shot him.  And my brother then went to another family member to go and call him, he said come and look he has been shot.  And his brother then, my husbands brother then arrived and took him to hospital and then my brother came and told me that my husband is shot.
 And I asked him has he been killed, and he said well he doesn't know.  An hour and a half later - my husband's brother came to tell me that my husband has passed away.  The Monday morning we went to Court, I had to go and identify my husbands body, it was myself and Reverent Krotz.  And when we got there, they refused to give us the body - they told us that it was their corpse, it was their body and that we couldn't be given the body to go and bury it.  That was just myself, my parents and our children could go and attend the burial.
 The Reverent Krotz then asked them why didn't they want to give us the body, and they said, no we left and we came back again and they then aimed their revolvers wat us, they wanted to shoot us.  We then went home and went back to the police station.  
 Eventually Reverent Krotz insisted that he had to get the body, because it was a member of his congregation and eventually they did give us the body after that.  I had to turn away because they were shooting at us all - they were shooting at all of us and I buried my husband,  my family and myself - we buried my husband.  It was a very-very hard time - these twenty years since I lost my husband, because he was our breadwinner, I had to raise my five children by myself.  I have a daughter who started suffering from shock after this, she had to be treated in Worcester for the shock.  And I really struggled to keep us all alive until today.
 I still to this day don't know how I raised these children all on my own, it was really a bitter struggle during the past twenty years to raise them single-handedly , I was destitute, I was evicted from my home, because I didn't have money.  I waited for nine months before I got any help with my children.  I had to plead for help and I  was rebuffed and I had to accept it.