SANDISWA MKHONTO
Sparrow was arrested in 1984.  The police came into our house at 
about twelve.  The police van just arrived, I was with my father and mother in law and 
when I peeped through the door, there were a lot of police around my house. I told my 
husband to put on warm attire.  When he was leaving, he carried his identity document.  I 
gave him warm clothes.  
 The policemen knocked at the door and went around the house looking at every 
part of it that they could get to.  I ended up going to the door and I met the officer, Mr 
Gali, he pushed me and said he wanted my husband.  I fell down and my husband was 
very shocked and quiet at the time.  We regarded him as a cheeky person and Gali 
continued and terrorised him and said, "You will stop being cheeky!", and he grabbed him 
and took him to the police van.
 We stayed for a long time without him. On the second day they didn't inform me 
as to what had happened to my husband.  I went to the offices of Cradora, when I went 
there my husband was there in a terrible swollen state, unable to see because his eyes were 
swollen.