DIRK ADRIAAN VAN DER BANK
When the crowd moved in there were factions, if I can call it that of the crowd running all over, going there, coming back, going there, it was chaos.  The noise was such that I couldn't hear the people talking next to me.  It was terrible.  When the crowd ran through the stadium they got out of line of sight from me.  Soon afterwards the operational commander, Colonel Nkosana shouted to me on the radio and said, "they are shooting at us, they are shooting at us", and I said to him "are you sure that they are shooting at you?"  So there was a quiet period again.  And then he came back in a panicky voice and he said "they are shooting at us, they are shooting at us, they are going to kill us."  And I said "are you sure", he said "yes they are shooting at us".  I relayed that information to the then CDF commander.