CORNISH MMEKO MAKHANYA
Lichtenburg police station.  When I arrived at the police station, my brother was a policeman, he asked what was happening, why are they arresting me and they said that if he interferes, he will also be dismissed from his job, so he kept quiet.  My parents were in Dobsonville. They put me inside the van with what I was wearing and I thought that I had been arrested alone but I found that there were also others who had been arrested, so there were more than fourteen of fifteen people, and they took me upstairs and put me in a room with cupboards ......(end of tape 17)
.... I brought here, they knew that I was coming from Gauteng.  I told them I was visiting this place because every time during school holidays I come to Lichtenburg. 
 The other ones came in, they untied my hands, they said I'm going to speak the truth, during that time I was bleeding.  There was a long stick, they unscrewed it, they said I must sit down squatting with my hands up straight and they asked questions.  I said that I didn't know anything, so they informed me that I will speak the whole night and they took a machine, poured water on me and put a cloth on my breast and a hefty boer started shocking me with electricity. They put on this machine again, that boer said I didn't want to say anything in front of them, he took two chords and connected them to this machine, they put them on my head and poured water on me and put on this machine for a long time and I continued to refuse to talk.  Another boer said, this kaffir doesn't want to talk, we must just kill this kaffir.  Those two police that I was with also knew me and I knew them, they pretended to be going out.  They took off my BVD, they put me flat on the ground as if I was taking a photograph, they put a stick under me which they took and put it between my knees underneath and they took my hands and they handcuffed them, and when I asked them what they were doing, they said I'm talking a lot, I know a lot. They took off all the chords on my head ....(witness upset)