MS T MAYER
... announcing that there was going to be a youth meeting and the youth would come.   And we would talk about the main objectives of this league as well as the UDF organisation, about the oppression that we were going through.   And later on Shabalala realised that my family was involved in politics, because whenever he used to call the youth, nobody would go to his meetings, and we also wouldn't go to his meetings because we felt we were not obliged.   We were citizens and we had a right to stay in that place.   But Shabalala later on, when we were attacked, he said he knew nothing about the attack, because on that particular day he left having given out instructions that we should be attacked, especially the business people, because I also had a shop and Shabalala had given an instruction that I be attacked.   I think at that time he went to Newcastle.   It was on a Sunday, February 1985, at two in the afternoon I was at the shop.  I had a very big tuckshop.   Because the community of Lindelani didn't have any shops nearby.   I had somebody announcing over the loudspeaker saying, "Mrs Mbatha, get out of that place".   And the children were scared, they were saying we were going to die.   And we already heard that people had died and their shops had been looted and they had taken some of the possessions as well as stocks from the shop.   I decided to go outside to hear as to what they wanted from me.  When I got out I saw a cloud of dust and I saw two groups carrying weapons.   They were carrying tin stuff, foodstuff and all sorts of things that you can get from the shop.  And I stood in front of Khanyile.   Khanyile was the one who was leading this group and he was giving the orders as to who should be attacked.   And he was the one who was responsible for all these announcements.   I stood in front of them and Khanyile said it in the loudspeaker and said, "Today we have come to the Mbatha family, Lambatha(?) has said blood must spill, but now we are carrying quite a lot of things and we would have to go and off-load all the stocks that we have, and we would come back to fetch some" and they were starting to quarrel, they wanted to take my possessions.   One was saying I am going to take the generator, the other one was saying I am going to take a fridge.   And by then somebody came and I was amongst this group called "Amabutho" and this person from the car got off his car and approached us.   Then Khanyile said the instruction was that they should come and deal with me.  David asked as to whether that was the law or the rule that a person should be attacked, we want to be told as to what we have done, what was the motive for the attack, and Khanyile looked down upon my husband.   Then he told him that they were coming back.   When the first group moved away from my house and the second one followed with the stocks that they had taken from the other shops, I said this car should come home and when my husband drove the car into my yard, I took quite a few things.   I took my TV, I took my fridges and I left the three others.  I took my children with.  And I told them that as we are going we don't know where we are heading for, but we are going to stay in the forest because we had no other place to run to.   I told my husband that we are going to stay in the forest.   We want the world to see what is happening to us because we have been writing to Buthelezi about the things that were happening in Lindelani.  We haven't yet got an answer.   Now, this attack is taking place on us personally.   Now, we should publicize this and make it known so that the world may know.   We drove to Ntuzuma Training Centre at the forest near the road.   We off-loaded the children.   We were not armed, we had absolutely nothing with us.   We stayed next to the road.  Unfortunately my generator had gone in for service.   Then certain dominees came.   They brought a tent and they said we should just cover ourselves.   They asked us what the problem was.  They said they wanted to accommodate us.  And we said they should just help us pray.