TESTIMONY_GIVER:
  At Mahlabatini and near Nkanga, on that particular night - because the situation was not quite well, so I was not at Mahlabatini, so I was in one of my wives' houses.  Because of the situation that was there my wife, together with the children, decided that she should not sleep at home because it was not safe.  There was a faction fight between ANC and Inkatha.  They wanted members.  My wife ran to Nkanga, where there was a Dlomo family, who is my cousin.  They slept at that house.  Because the children had to go to school the following morning they woke up very early the following morning, and she was preparing for the children to go to school.  Before they even got home they were followed by certain men.  According to the children they said these were three men who were wearing Balaclavas.  They started shooting them.  My wife was shot at that time, and she fell in front of the yard.  My twins were also shot, Thulisile and Thulile.  They were shot in the legs.  The elder daughter managed to run away, and she hid herself behind the trees.  Thulile and Thulisile also followed suit, they went to hide with their sister.  They hid there for quite some time, and they were waiting for the people to disappear.  Thereafter they proceeded home.  That's where Xolisile went.  She took a shawl and she went to cover her mother.  And my neighbour, who had a shop, went and took the twins, Thulile and Thulisile.  Thulisile had been shot in the leg only.  Thulile has got a wound just below the scapula, as well as on her right leg.  After this had happened the police got a message, the Isipingo police got a message, and they went to fetch my wife's corpse to the mortuary.  Apparently they were sent by my son, Mduduzi, because he also nearly died because he had slept at a certain house opposite the Dlomo family, and he was following them.  When this was happening he was behind his sisters, and when he heard gunshots he realised that his mother, as well as his sisters, were injured and he went back to raise the alarm, because the police in Isipingo came to fetch the corpse.  After they had been discharged from the hospital - I asked the hospital to discharge them because I wanted them to come back to their mother's funeral.  This happened on the 13th, and that weekend went past.  The following weekend I asked for them to be released so that they could come to their mother's funeral.  The police took the statement.  Thulile also submitted a statement.  I took the children to the police, and that was the end of the matter.  I was never filled in as to what has happened.  That's why I have come before this Commission.  Thank you.