STEPHEN DONALD MAKHURA
Thank you, Sir.
"I will briefly outline my political background.  I left this country sometime after 1986 to Botswana.  I stayed at a refugee camp called, Dukwe which was under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.  That is where I joined the African National Congress.
	After staying there for some few weeks I left for Zimbabwe where I stayed in a suburb near Harare, called Hatfield.  During that time I became interested in politics.  Together with other comrades we proceeded to Zambia in Chelston. In Chelston its where we made a choice to undergo military training in Angola.  
	We left for Angola together with more than nine comrades.  In Angola I trained Enikakulama(?) at a base called "Richard's Bhani Molokwani".  I stayed there until 1989.  As a result of Resolution 435 of the United Nations which compelled all the foreign forces to leave Angola, we left for Tanzania.
	Some of our cadres went to Uganda and some went to Tanzania.   From Tanzania at Eringa Place I again left to Tanga near the Indian Ocean where I further my military training.  
	I came back to Eringa where there was this influx of young comrades running away from political violence, that is black on black violence inside the country.  I was appointed a commander and a commissar at the same time to train those young comrades to come back inside the country to defend themselves and the people.
	I came to South Africa in 1992 on the 27th of February.  It must also be noted that during our stay in exile we used to discuss a lot about political violence taking place in the country, especially between the IFP and the ANC, and the young comrades whom we were training in Tanzania related to us the horrors of political violence inside the country.  
	We sometimes listened to the radio stations like BBC, Duchavel, VOA and other stations relating the fierce violence taking place inside the country.  Then on the 27th of February I returned to the country as a former exile.
	I stayed in Thokoza, that is where the violence was taking its toll.  I found the situation unbearable.  People were dying there.  As a cadre of Umkhonto weSizwe I had to act my role ..."
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