HILDA PHAHLE
The police never told us anything.  Even the day when they first came there on the 10th of December,  I asked one of the policeman.  They wouldn't allow us to - they searched the house, the main house.  George had a room in the yard.  After searching they went to the yard, they found other rooms occupied. Then there was one room that was
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locked and they wanted to know whose room that was.  The tenants said it is George's room.  So they came up to us and they demanded the key. We went and opened and I still remember George had been there during the week, he had bought some underpants and vests and I put them on his bed.  So when I wanted to get that, he drove me away, in the vulgarest language he can. I asked one black man what has happened?  He just shook his head and said ( ... not interpreted ...) and I knew what that "akul, akul" was.   Except the Press, which everybody was able to follow, and the TV that I was able to relate, they knew more than what  knew, things that I did not know about George, which I cannot relate even now, because I do not know whether those things were true.  You relate a thing that you know is true but not what you hear and say on paper.