MADIBO SHADRACK SEAKGOA
We were being watched around the clock.  At one point when it was during the days when the AWB raided the camps and stole arms from the Army bases. At one point in the middle of the night we were woken by flashlights in the cells, and when you wake up you find a big bearded guy with khaki-clad and AWB badges on the shoulders. Photographs of us were taken there. We couldn't identify those people who were intimidating us, we were afraid of our death.
 Young as we were we vowed that even if we die, our 
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struggle will still or our deaths will not be in vain, and our deaths will accelerate the liberation of many in South Africa.
 I also need to make mention of a certain Det-Sgt Callingan.  At that time when we were detained, I was unfortunate to have suffered from gonorrhoea which is a sexually transmitted disease.  For two weeks in detention I was refused medical treatment.  Even visits from my family members.  I pleaded with the then station commander, Sgt Potgieter of Hartebeesfontein, but to no avail.  Until such time that a certain lawyer from the Lawyers for Human Rights, Mr Atimi Ichbal Motala paid us a visit.  We complained to him.  At least I was sent to a certain Dr Meyer who had his surgery at Hartebeesfontein.  
 I never received any injection or anything, I was given tablets and had to go to my cell. I returned there and unfortunately the disease that I was suffering from, was being attended to some degree. I was recovering.
 This Det-Sgt Calligan came to me and offered me a sum of R200,00 so that I could write down the names of all my leaders.  He bought me a packet of cigarettes and biltong and he gave me 24 hours to write two pages of all the leaders that I know, who had given me instructions as to what to do, what to organise and what not.
 He came the following day and he found a blank page.  He found his packet of cigarettes and his biltong.  He told me why did you not eat it - he asked me why did I not eat that biltong and I bluntly told him that I suspect maybe that it has been poisoned and being in prison is an advantage in stopping smoking.  
 He gave me the pen and I started writing the names: 
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Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Joe Slovo ... (Laughter).  All the people that I know are famous.  Under the name of Joe Slovo, I underlined that, and that was the great mistake that I did.  I was made to squat on the floor and kicked on my private parts by Sgt Calligan.  
 Thereafter I was told to report the following morning to the charge office so that I can supply him with a fresh list of all the names of the leaders that I knew.  Again, I gave him the very same names of my national leaders, the leaders of the democratic revolution.  Again, I was viciously tortured.  My pleas went on deaf ears.  Family visits were not permitted.  Even our attorney visited us only once.  We couldn't buy ourselves food. We were given rations that were of poor nutritious value. To this point I still suffer from some of the repercussions of the treatment that I received.
 At one point a certain Mr Tsitse, whose rank I don't know, he was also in the security branch, hit me repeatedly with my head on the wall.  I fainted and I woke up in a pool of blood. Until today I have a serious problem of nervous tension. I was hospitalised about three times in the past three years. I am saying all the expenses that I have incurred because of the gross human violations that I encountered, need to be looked into and my future medications or whatever implications that I may be involved in, because of what I went through for the justified struggle against a minority regime, be looked seriously into by government.