LIZZIE THANDI SEFOLO
I have come here to find out the truth about my husband who was taken from Witbank at the supermarket in 1987.  I tried to look for him with the police and the mortuaries, all over, I could not find him.  At the Witbank they came to Pretoria to find out if he had been found.  They also found that I had not found him.  And at Mamelodi I also used to go there to find out where his whereabouts but they said they were also still looking for him.  Up until today.
 I heard through the City Press on the 28th of January 1996 all these past eight years I have been looking for him and I have not been able to find him and nobody gave me assistance to find him.  I have been struggling to bring up my children.  I had nobody to assist me bringing up my children but I have tried in every respect to look for him.  I have even been to Human Rights.  I am grateful that Human Rights enabled me to come to the Truth Commission to hear about what happened with my husband.
 I also want to thank God because I've been praying because I was realising that I was no longer able to look after my children.  I just said you God, you know everything, you also know where my husband is.  I have also been requesting God to assist me find out where my husband is.  God gave me the strength and I have been praying up until today.
 I  would like to hear from the Truth Commission - I would like to tell the Truth Commission that there is a man who arrived called Mamasela.  I have also read that in the 28th January newspaper.  Mamasela said he took him at 
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Witbank.  They took him to some place which I can't remember because I don't have the paper with me and he said they tortured him and cut off his hands.  They shot him and blew him up.  I felt a great pain because I read all of this in the newspaper.  Nobody told us anything before we read this news in the newspaper.  Nobody came to tell us about this.  So we started feeling the pain afresh again when we read this in the newspaper.  Even the children when he disappeared they were only as young as six years old.  Even today the children cannot recognise their father because they never knew him, they were still very young.
 My husband left me with loans, but through God's strength I was able to fulfil all those financial obligations, take my children to school, but the older children I couldn't help because I was still trying to help the younger ones.  And the elder ones are still at home they don't work and they can't progress because I am still educating the younger children.  So the pain  that I felt I really would like to ask God to give me strength so that I can hear from this man why he killed my husband, killed him in such a cruel manner in cutting off his hands.  Because they cut off his hands while he was still alive.  All these things are things I read from the newspapers and I had to experience this pain afresh.  
 I really do not know why they did this to my husband to deserve such cruelty.  He was a man who was looking after his family.  He did everything that was expected of him.  I can never forget him.  We can never forget him in our family.