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Victims The Bhongolethu Three.
Fezile Hanse - 14
Andile Majola - 13
Patrick Madikane - 14
The above three children were shot dead by police on 17th June 1985.  The shooting took place at the home of a black security policeman, Mngoma.
 An eyewitness Mzukisi Mooi, described the event as follows
People believed Mngoma's house was empty.  Another boy with a red jersey went to the front door.  The next minute I heard a shot going off.  Shots were fired continuously.  I saw a little boy lying near the gate.  I say a girl crawling across the road.  The next moment, policemen came out of the house.  One policeman continued fired at the crowd.  One of the policemen brought a holder with petrol from the house and threw it in a Fanta bottle.  He then put it near the body of the one child.
The policemen denied this version.  They said they had acted in self-defence after a crowd attacked the township house that they were guarding.  The policeman testified that one of the youths had sprinkled petrol onto the carpet of the house.  The other one had matches on him and in order to  stop him from striking the match, the policemen in charge shot the child.  The other two children were shot in the process of fighting the crowd which had gathered outside the house.  The policemen together with other men were moving the furniture of the black security policeman who was unable to live in the township.
Humphrey  Joseph [organiser for Saamstaan newspaper] and Mzukisi Mooi [Bhoca member] were charged in terms of Section 27[b] of the Police Act.  It was alleged that they published untruths about the police and their actions in this incidents in the July 1985 edition of Saamstaan.