MS MAXONGO
Reverend, people were beaten up.  It was painful.  Women cried 
out, they screamed, but there was no mercy.  You would think that when a woman 
cries out, praying, mercy would be found.  We prayed, but got no mercy.  I was also 
beaten up Mr Chairperson.  I was beaten up such that I had a terrible wound on my 
head that I was temporarily blind.  The women stood strong.  The car I was driving 
was packed with women.  When we were next to Elwoody with women bleeding, the 
traffic cop stopped my car.  The traffic cops stopped our car.  They said that I did not 
have a licence.  I told them I had a learner's licence.  They said that I could not do that. 
 I told them that we were bleeding, injured.  They refused.  We got out as women, 
pushed them out of the way and got back to the car and we told them that they would 
get us at the hospital.  As women we were very oppressed.  Our rights were violated, 
but we got to the hospital.  
 Mr Chairperson, I said that I was not going to be long.  I just wanted to reveal 
that as women we contributed to the struggle.  I want to request the Committee, 
however, that, well it is going to take a report before the President, especially in 
connection with the bus boycott victims, something should be done for the people.  
People's families, children belonging to the victims.  There should be some form of 
fund to educate, to pay for their education.  We would appreciate that peoples' bodies 
be exhumed and people be given their full rights to bury their own people that 
disappeared.  Children that were injured, most of them were not able to continue with 
their education.  These are the battles of COSAS.  They should be, people should 
endeavour to help these people.  
 I went to the Border Training Centre and found out that if the Government 
would help certain organisations and women so that people could be trained.  There 
are knitting machines, sewing machines and there are other ways to help people 
especially with their skills so that people can forgive and people can let go of the 
bitterness they feel towards Sebe's regime.