DITINI THYIDO
Maliqole was armed with a sub-machine gun.  We went to Mr Mpisane's house which was in the R Section of Site B of Khayelitsha, we found Mpisane standing in front of his house and when Mkhulutha asked him where the others were, Mpisane ran away.
	Mkhulutha then decided that Mpisane had to be shot and Maliqole then fired aiming at Mpisane.  I never noticed where the bullet struck him, but I realised that they did strike him.  Mpisane went and hid and we eventually gave up.
	In that way our plan failed.  Because of this act, we were arrested and prosecuted.  I was found guilty on these charges that I mentioned above.  I was sentenced to the abovementioned sentence.
	During our trial I heard that someone had died because of the shooting incident on the day we had attacked Mpisane.  I do not know how this person ended up being injured.  The court also found us guilty of the culpable homicide for the death of this person.
	The act for which I was found guilty was a political act caused by the ill-treatment by the police who were working for the oppressive regime of the time.
	That act happened at a time where those police who were mentioned caused a situation in the residential area which was similar to a war situation.  Although the act for which I was convicted was illegal, we were forced to do that because the community at large in our locations needed to be protected from the members of the Internal Stability Unit and their informants.