PAULINA MASELEPE KEKANA
On Monday the 15th of July 1985, there was chaos in the township of Graaf Reinet, there were camouflaged hippos before mid day that day and they were shooting tear gas all over the place so that people scattered, others running to the houses.  I was also inside the house but my shop is situated right at the turn.  Where this boy was shot there's a house of the Geld family which was in front of the house where the children ran to.  There were so many caspars that the children would run in any direction.  While I was looking while still in the shop which I decided to close although there were other people inside, because I was afraid of those hippos, most of the people were on top of the roof of the Geld family house.  Others were in the hotel in Graaf Reinet, I think they were communicating through their walkie-talkies, because since they were on Panorama they were telling them what was happening. To follow the events they went to sit on the roof of Mr Geld's house. Bullets were being fired, some of them into Mr Matsolo's house.  These children were at the back yard next to the toilet.  I was watching how these policemen were shooting, and when they had finished shooting, some of them alighted from the caspar that was in front of the Matsolo house, I could see that they were pulling two people who I saw by the legs and they threw them into the hippo just like animals.   While I was still looking at that I saw this young boy coming out of the toilet trying to run for cover somewhere else next to the Presbyterian Church.  This child disappeared there behind a building.  When I saw them coming with the two young men that they had thrown into the hippo I went to the scene.  When I arrived there I could see that the asbestos house was damaged and Reverend Madwabile had just arrived at the church said that there is a child who had just arrived there lying near the mission toilet.  He was in pain and asked Tandi, Mrs Matsola's son to go there but they couldn't lift up this child because he was heavy.
 Mr Madlwabile decided to offer his car to help. I told them that this child was going to die because he was gasping for the last.  I took the back seat in the car and I told the reverend to rush to the hospital because it was clear that the child was dying.  On the way to the hospital, as it was chaotic, the roads were barricaded and we had to take another road through the coloured township.  When we arrived At Church Street from Contsvale, one police casper drove past because it was following us.  We went through and went to the hospital.  
 When we arrived we went in and I told them that they must bring a stretcher quickly and he had pellets all over the body, especially on the left hand side. When the nurses were on their way with the stretcher trying to take him in, Doctor Smith who was the district surgeon at the time was already there.  There were three of these children there because he was now with the other boys who had been pulled by their legs.  Dr Smith looked at the first one and said he was already dead, there's nothing they can do.  The other two who were with him were those boys who were being pulled by the legs at Mrs Matsolo's house.  I thought one's eye had been gouged out, and the other one couldn't talk, he was just looking.  
 They wanted us to identify these children. I told them that I used to see one of them coming to my shop but I didn't know his name.  One lady came to identify the one who was bleeding, assisted me in signing because we did not know the parents of the boy who passed away . We later found out that the lady next to me was the mother to that child but she was on the farm.