ROBERT KOHL
The Anglican Church of St Clements, that's a part of the Church of the Province of South Africa.  At the hospital we were taken to this little room where the body was.  One of the nurses, my neighbour's daughter, she was a nurse there and she opened the space for me to identify him. I first looked at him and I felt his forehead and his neck to make sure if he's really dead, but there was no movement from him.  I could feel that cold has already crept into his body and that's the moment I felt that it's really true, and I had to leave to be alone, to think about it, to understand what had happened, but even then I couldn't understand why this happened to me, why this happened to my family and I just left and stood outside for a while.  Reverend Titus came to me and spoke to me, and the group of us went back to my place.
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 Everybody was there now, all the people that I knew and friends, a crowd of people waited at my place and wanted to talk to me.  I was sort of walking, you don't know if you're coming or going actually, it's a sort of feeling that you have that you're not there or you are there or something like that and the principal of the high school came to me and said. "Don't forget, we still have to report this matter to the police", and he asked me if I wanted to go with. I felt that I must go with, because the father and I must go to the police station and report this matter.  So the principal, myself, Mr Hillier, and Mr Jerry Akum went to the police station.  Reverend Titus had already left so the four of us went to the police station.
 At the police station we saw these Caspars parked outside, in the yard, all around and people there. A lot of policemen actually.  It was a sort of climate where you could see people were really rejoicing over the sort of victory, the fun they had today, chasing people, shooting people.  They were all happy, shouting, it was the sort of atmosphere that you couldn't understand, but if you're in that situation you feel that they don't actually care about the person that they shot or the people that they shot.
 On entering there was a young constable, he was at the counter also smiling, and when he hears that I said I'm reporting my son's death, the one who was shot.  He asked me where, and I told him, at the funeral down in the township, and his face changed, you could see there was no laughter in his face anymore, he sort of saw that we were really serious in reporting this case.  It took him some time to grab some paper and a pencil and he wrote everything down.  On the counter there was a lot of wet clothing because that 
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afternoon that had been some drizzle...(intervention)