MERRIMAN SIPHO SIKUTSHWA
During the state of emergency I was still a boy, I was only 16 years old.  There was a proclamation named as Proclamation R400 where the Boers assaulted people in Bizana.
 They deployed hundreds of soldiers and police with weapons.  They said that they are going to kill ANC.  I was arrested in the forrest.  Everybody was arrested from boys aged 14 years to men over 80 years of age, everybody was arrested.
 Every male person was arrested.  They took us to Bizana.  They were, the police and soldiers were in their cars which were known as caspers with their helmets, there was a helicopter surrounding us and at that time I did not know what was going on until I saw the soldiers in their jeep.
 They came to me, they said come.  I was confused because at that time I didn't like White people although I was not politically motivated, but I did not like White people.
 When I tried to answer them, I answered in Xhoza, they couldn't understand me, because they were speaking Afrikaans only.  They told me to come.  I tried to answer them in English, still they did not understand me.  They just showed me to go to that van.
 I refused, they came to me, they dragged me.  That is
where I fight for myself, I managed to escape.  They were chasing me.
 I was fighting with them.  It is when I got injured here in my face and I lost my teeth.