MS MOJAPELO
On the 26th February 1990, there were some boys who came home whilst Stanley was still sleeping, they were comrades. There were some comrades who were from Temba location, they woke Stanley up, and I wasn't at home right then. They invited him to go and fight against the Bophuthatswana police because they never wanted that government.  They also went to wake Michael Moloi and Teba Molesoka, I can't remember what time they left, but as they explained to me it was in the morning at about 6 o'clock. They went to go and fight against the Bophuthatswana government. They went to Temba, that is they were from our local own village Temba. When they got there I don't know what happened at about 9 o'clock some children with jerseys on their shoulders came home. When they arrived they called me from another house where I had visited. I was taken to a black doctor. When those children arrived they woke my daughter, so that she could show them where I were.  When they told me that Stanley had fallen into the river, because the police were chasing them from the bridge at Morokolos on their way to Temba. They said when the police was still chasing them there were some police who came out of (indistinct) and they had no place to run to and then they headed for the river. As they were explaining to me Stanley was running in the front, when the police came from (indistinct) Stanley was suddenly behind.   When Temba said to Stanley "watch out" the police were already near by. They went into the river and they saw Stanley changing, they didn't know what was the problem with him because they were at that time being shot at with teargas canisters. While they were still in the river trying to cross it they couldn't. Some of them were hiding at the river banks. Stanley was together with the others were hiding behind the trees.  While they were standing Tebogo said he heard a lot of sounds, bangs coming from the shots fired by the police. He saw that Stanley was weak by that time but he couldn't understand the reason and he thought that Stanley had been shot because when the other police came from the other school Stanley ended up running behind. When he was still holding Stanley, Stanley got weaker and weaker and he called for help from the police, but the police said, "go and call Mandela so that he can come to help you because it is Mandela who you are fighting for".   When Stanley started drowning the other boys started coming out of the river and the police cleared the river, and Tebogo remained there alone because Stanley was in the river. All these boys who left before Stanley came and looked for me and they found me. I wanted them to go and show me where Stanley had drowned, they said they were afraid of the police and they wont go to Temba again, because the police would assault them.   Tebogo looked for me so he could show me where Stanley had drowned.
 We went into the first police station at the training college. When we got there we asked the police to take us to the Bophuthatswana police station so that we could look for my son. They said to us we don't have any pass to speak to those people or authorise them, go and ask them on your own so that you can get your son.    We wondered whether they were not going to assault us, but they promised that no they wont assault you because all you have to do is tell them you have been sent by us. When we got there the Bop police took us to the river but we couldn't find Stanley, and then Tebogo had heard that we went to the river then he came on his own so that he could show us where Stanley had drowned.    The police were still standing near to the river but they couldn't help us. We waited there on the 26th of February until dawn, until dusk and we couldn't find any help.   The following day when we came to that river we stood there and the Bop police couldn't help us. They told me that I must go to Central police station and I was accompanied by three ladies.    When we got there they said that they received a message about the boy who drowned  yesterday, but they couldn't help us, and then they phoned the lifesavers. On the 27th of February at about 2 o'clock the lifesavers came around. They looked for Stanley for a long time before they could find him. I just want to know the names of those police who were chasing my children because I believe that Stanley had been shot because the clothes he had on him had blood stains.