DR BORAINE
"offered us any money, no sympathy card, nothing.  They knew full well that they had planted the bomb there, and knew that they were to take responsibility for this.  The only organisation which sent us a telegram of sympathy was the Azanian Peoples Organisation, AZAPO.  It is sad that even people who are now in Parliament, and people who knew us so well, failed to arrive at the funeral.  They failed to even pass a word of condolence.  To date nothing of this nature has happened.  I understood later that two days after the blast Comrade Oliver Thambo went Radio Freedom and apologised.  I don't know if that is true.  I only heard about this.  He was in London at the time, and a London newspaper carried a report that the victims of the blast were carrying a bomb in their car when it exploded.  The ANC was in London, and did nothing to clear the names of my brother and sister-in-law, or the other person that was killed.  I approached a few senior ANC members in the country regarding the bombing and possible monetary help.  This was futile.  None of them even came back to me.  Many of those people, I may say, Mr Chairman, are sitting in Parliament who were activists at the time when I was an activist in Durban.  The P W Botha Government at that time created a State President's Fund for victims of the blast, and I made an application for help, but they