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clinic and this got him into trouble, because the following day, the police came in and took 
him into custody where he was interrogated. He was asked why he took the children to 
hospital and he said he was trying to save their lives. He was released but from then on the 
Ciskeian police periodically interrogated him wherever he might be.
 This created a label against him. I was always very frightened when I saw a police 
van, because I would get his clothes for fear that they had come to take him away to those 
cold cells.  He would just keep calm but at that time they didn't take him. We discussed 
the matter and felt that we ought to leave Dimbaza and I was highly expectant that June. 
In July I started to work as a teacher.  We decided that he should be the one to leave and I 
would keep the home fires burning.  
 The following year I joined him and then in October 1981, I delivered. In 1982 I 
went to work at Oudtshoorn.  We worked together for quite a long time. He was my 
principle at the time, so things were quiet for a while, but the times at Oudtshoorn when 
we could realise that we were struggling because it was a very small place.  There was no 
accommodation, you would put up even a shack which we didn't mind as long as we had 
dropped the trail of the police.
 When we saw people demolish a house, we took the bricks and tried to extend the 
house in which we were able to stay. At a later stag, because he was a friend to Matthew, 
there was a rally ...(intervention)