MR LAX
Mr Haripersad was talking to these Inkatha members who were there.  After a few minutes he requested Mr Naidoo to get - to drive his van in and tell us to get out from the van, and we got out from the van and we stood outside.  And they took the weapons which were there and they loaded them into the van.   After a short while, when we were still standing there, even though I did not hear exactly what he said to them, he left.  He went into the Sentra, the cream-white Sentra, and he left.  In that minute, instantly, the soldiers - other left, also followed, and the soldiers were left.  And I just asked one of the coloured soldiers.  He could not speak Zulu, and I asked him now that the police have left us here, and the people who are here are enemies to us, how can he be of help, and how can he help us in this situation?  He said, "No, Haripersad has already instructed, and we have to do as he has said."  In that minute the soldiers also left.  Now, when the soldiers were leaving the Inkatha people, Inkatha members, now started walking towards us, and when they got to us they got hold of the one whose mind was lost already, and I asked immediately, "What have we done?"  In that minute, that very minute, I just managed to escape, I ran,  because they were already shooting, but I was shot, I was wounded on my right-hand foot.  And I was taken to Isipingo because I got a lift.  And the driver who gave me a lift could see that I was trying to run as fast as my feet could carry me to escape from the situation.  He was kind enough to help me.  And the roads were not safe then because the people were scattered around, the Inkatha people scattered around, and there was this lady who knew us so well, and knowing my family as well, and she went to my place and explained what happened from what she saw to my family.  And the community gathered together to listen to what has happened.  Immediately I came also, and they were still shocked, surprised.  I had to explain to them what exactly took place.  I could not go to the hospital because of the situation.  Because of how the things were it was not even safe for me to go to the hospital.  Upon Bongani's death comrade Mrs Ndebele came.  She used to come to us and listen to our problems and try to enlist some help, and also tried to see if she could not get some police to come and at least give us security.  She asked Haripersad to come on that very day.  He came around four in the afternoon.  When he came he was asked about the boys he took, two boys, and asked what were they accused - why were they accused and what was going on.  And he said no, we had guns in our possession and we had to be taken and to be arrested because of that reason.  And we opened a case in that regard, and for some time nothing was done, and we gave the statement, and two weeks later I was called at Merebank, where I was connected and I was introduced to one of the police from Amanzimtoti, by Mr Hunter, who took my statement.  You know, it seemed like it was going to be handled and go on, but up until to this day nothing has been done.  After two weeks Bongani disappeared.  They tried to look for him, they could not see him, and finally they located his corpse.  He was already dead, lying along the road, burnt.