NYAMEKA NONDABULA
First of all, I was a member of East London Youth Organisation.  It was in 1986.  It was in 1986 when this incident occurred.  I went to this commemoration, because the East London Youth Organisation members were there and as residents of Duncan Village we were notified that there will be this service on this date, the June 16th.  It started in Dlokweni Methodist Church and the other one was at Merra in Mdantsane.  We then went to Merra in Mdantsane for this service.  When I got there, there were women from different churches wearing their uniforms, their church uniforms, Ministers were there and the youth.
 The service started at two o' clock.  When a speaker from the Mandela Release Campaign was on the floor, Mr Nhonhonho, who was in command of the police, Ciskeian Police at that time, addressed us saying that he knows that the youth was very strong.  He asked the people to stop the youth not to disrupt anything in the township saying that a bus was being burnt down in NU1.  People did not respond and he went out asking the Ministers to follow him.  When the Ministers were approaching the church door we could see that they were assaulted by the soldiers.  We did not know that, we did not know whether the soldiers came with Mr Nhonhonho or they just arrived.  
 They started beating the Ministers.  They then went to the church assaulting everybody who was in that church.  The women who were wearing their uniforms, they prayed.  Because I was staying next to these women I also prayed with them. They stopped praying when a teargas, they released teargas and after that we decided to leave the church.  Soldiers were around and they were beating everybody.  I was behind this woman.  I hoped that they would forgive us.  They assaulted this woman and they came to me, they beat me.  As they were beating us all over there was one huge soldier next to me.  He tried to kick me and there was another one from behind.  As they were assaulting us with the sjamboks I fell down.  My spectacles were broken and I was unconscious.  
 After a while I regained consciousness.  I went to a house next to the church.  We were taken there to hospital, to Frere Hospital.  I stayed for three weeks in Frere Hospital.  I had a cut, my nose, my eyes got injured, my ears were bleeding. I did not know what was wrong with me at that time.  The doctors then told me that I am not going to, my right ear is not going to hear and my other eye was blind and then ...