BHEKISISA ALEX KHUMALO
At that time the situation was tense because nobody went to school in our area, it was only Caprivians who were able to go to the shops because we had guns.  We would collect money from everybody in the area and they would give us a list and we would go to the shops to buy for them.
	Some people who were employed no longer went to work.  Some died, like a girl from the Xginsi family who was killed at Nxoi area, so the situation was very tense. 
	On a particular day there was a Caprivian called Bongo Somi who resided in a stronghold of the comrades.  Bongo came with the information that, he told us of areas where ANC members resided, so on that day we saw UDF members approaching from an area called Five Rand and went into Dennis's Shebeen.  Through the information that we had been given by Bongo, we knew that comrades went to this shebeen to drink.
	I, Smu and Nati as well as Mosakulu were sitting somewhere across at a spot where we could observe.  We saw the people going into the shebeen.  An hour did not elapse and these comrades came out of the house, they were singing.  They were actually singing that they were going to attack our area.
	At that time we did not have guns.  There was somebody called Teacher who had a 7.65 gun.  We went to him and it was decided, because he trusted me, I should be the one who borrows the gun from him.  He gave me the gun.  I explained to him what the situation was like and he also could see these people who were toyi-toying.  We could see that they were preparing to attack.  There were a few of us and therefore he could see that the situation was bad.  He gave us his gun.  
	We thought that we should ambush these people whilst they were still on the way so that they would not reach the area because if they did indeed reach the area they could cause much more damage.  We then went across ...[intervention]