MS NKUNDLANE
The way I was in those years, I was very active in politics.  Even if it was just a group of men in a meeting or an organization, I would be the only woman or a lady.  That's why the police wanted me and they did not arrest me once, they came to me many times.  I think it's about four times.  After the burning of Pops' house they came and arrested me together with Tshalo Moraba.  They came and told me that when the teachers was, was, was hit by a train, they said we came and threw stones to his house.  They took us to the police cells but we only stayed there for two days.  They released us and in all these cases I was, I was freed,  I was given discharge.  I was not actually involved.  They came, they were actually arresting me for the things that  I did not do.  They came again in 1992.  We were calling ourselves Messina Action Committee.  They arrested us for plus minus eight dates, eight days.  They separated us. Some of us took, were taken to Soekmekaar, some in Pietersberg and some in Louis Trichardt.  I was alone in Louis Trichardt.  It was a very frightening place.  It was dark.  I was at a cell in Louis Trichardt.  It was a two roomed cell.  That was a bedroom and a toilet at the same time.  The toilet was not working well.  They were giving me dirty food and they were throwing it to me just as they did before in 1990.  There  was one guy who was my brother-in-law.  He would actually make an effort to go and buy me clean food and bring them to me and I was supposed to hide it because he would be in trouble.  That's when Serf came and Katchalia.  They took us and we didn't know where the police were taking us to.  We passed through Mara and we fetched some people and we were taken to Pietersberg to meet Katchalia and Ntai and they tried  to negotiate with the police to release us and they were not telling us the main reason why they were arresting us.   When we arrived in Pietersberg, they said we were the ones who arr, organized a consumer boycott in Messina and we said, how, how can we organize  a boycott.  It was the community because we cannot stop what the community wants to do.  At the time there were other ten youths who were arrested.  After the Committee was arrested, those youths actually, they started demanding our release.  They wanted to free us and we actually started to demand their release too after, after we learnt in Pietersberg that there, there are other ten youths who were arrested and we denied, we didn't want to be released because we wanted them to be released too and they agreed that they'll release them and that's when we agreed.  Actually they were just torturing us and threatening us.  Every time they would, they would arrest guys and I would be the only lady even though I didn't do anything.