MS SEROKE
Good afternoon Paulina.  I just want to give you some background notes about the time in 1976.  The General Law Amendment Act of 1963 was still in place in 1976.  This legislation allowed detention without trial and
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it authorised any commissioned officer to detain, without a warrant any person suspected of political activities and to hold them without access to a lawyer for 90 days.  In terms of this act and the terrorism act many people were detained in connection with the alleged recruitment of guerilla fighters in South Africa.  June 16 1976 saw the outbreak of violence on a larger scale than has ever been experienced in South Africa.  During this time police were engaged in countrywide arrests, both adults and children were arrested.  Quite a number of children went missing and most of them were not being held by police but had gone into hiding following the house-to-house raids.  It was during this time that Pauline got arrested and suffered all kinds of human rights violations, such as detention, interrogation, torture and lack of basic human needs.
 Pauline in your statement you said you were arrested together with a lot of your friends in 1976, can you tell us what were you doing before you got arrested, were you working, what were you doing actually?