MRS SIKHOSANA
That was quite a difficult time for us as parents.  Miss Kumalo took me to the hospital on Sunday to see my son.   When I got there I discovered that my son was bleeding profusely through his nose.  We left ...(indistinct) Miss Kumalo.  The police refused us entry to the hospital.  We went to Heidelberg office and asked the Comrades there to accompany us to the hospital.  When we got to the hospital they refused us entry.  Tembi talked to them and they eventually allowed us in.  When I got to his bed, I realized that the nurses did not attend to him.  I saw the bullet in his neck and others were in the spinal cord.  When I asked him whether they were fighting because I was told that he was already in hospital, he said we were not fighting, we were only trying to get Ngakane to understand that he should not shoot because we had already finalized this matter of the buckets.  I also saw that his left hand was tied to a pole on the bed.  He was not attended to.  He could not stand up and his foot was also tied onto the hospital bed.
 What hurts me the most is that my son was not fighting.  I'm also so hurt about the fact that he was our breadwinner and to-day I've lost him.  I don't have my husband either.  What has hurt me as well is that each time I went to the hospital, they would refuse to let us see him.  Only one nurse allowed us in and what prompted me to go to that nurse was the way they had bandaged him on his back.  It was such a fatal wound.  The skin was peeling on that wound and that's why I approached the nurse so that I could pay attention to my son myself and attend to him personally.  I asked why he was tied to the bed in this way.  Why did they have his hand and his foot tied onto the bed ?  I approached the nurse so that I could attend to him myself.  The police were guarding him and were continuously insulting him.   I would like to apologize for the way I'm crying but when I recall the whole thing, it brings tears to me.  I can't control myself because I'm getting emotionally involved.