MANDLA WELLINGTON FOKAZI
Yes, I can explain this way, in 1990 I was working at Glodan Engineering in Edenvale.  We were assembling taps.  I was receiving a salary.  Then there were riots between Inkatha and the ANC.  As I was working, but I couldn't go to work because of a problem with transport and I was also scared that I would be affected because of the violence at the time.
	One day I went to the firm and when I arrived there the owner of the firm told me to choose between two things because people around the firm were looking for me, people that I was playing cards with during lunch, so he told me to choose between my job and my life.  I then stopped working because of that, I resigned.
	Then violence continued in Thokoza.  In 1990, before the end of 1990 the ANC took a decision that the community have to protect themselves, it then formed the Self Defence Units.  I was then one of the members of the Self Defence Units.  I was trained in Polla Park.  We were trained by the people who were able to use  guns.  
	The police then came.  We thought that they were trying to bring peace.  After a while we realised that the police were also involved in this.  We reported this to our organisation the ANC, that there are people that are involved in this violence or maybe they are the perpetrators of this violence.  
	Then the ANC didn't trust that because we were the ones who were telling the ANC.  We wanted them to prove this so that when the police came we would then kill them and then show the ANC that here are these people that were involved.  
	And the Minister of Law and Order at that time said that that was not true because he was also the Minister of the Police.  He didn't want to admit that the police were involved but we tried to show them that the police were involved in the violence.
	One day when this violence was still continuing the hippos came.  We thought that they were there to bring peace but we were doubting the white policemen.  And in that hippo with other, the police from elsewhere came to bring about peace in the area.  We realised that those police in the hippo, the people who got out of that hippo were Inkatha members and they attacked us.  A lot of people were injured in that incident.
	Again on one day, to show you that the police were involved, a Blue Ribbon bakery car came and people went there to get bread for their Spaza shops and it happened during that time in that Blue Ribbon car, the Inkatha members were the people who got out of that car.  There were also Boers inside.  There were white people inside that car.  We then saw that this violence is continuing.  It was also reported in the televisions and we were then involved in this.  That is how I lost my job or I resigned.