Human Rights Violation Hearings — Winelands — 1996-10-15

UNKNOWN: Yes, I do this computer course at  [indistinct]  because I don't - there are forcing me to do it.  I don't like it because I'm asked to clock in the morning.  I don't like - I don't like that course I'm doing at all.  Because some other times when I'm concentrating on the computer I'm asked to go and do some other jobs.  So I can not consider myself as a student, and even my instructor some other times say certain things that I do not like.

<UNKNOWN>: [indistinct] what kind of work would you like to do?

UNKNOWN: I want to be educated but I do not have finance.

<UNKNOWN>: [indistinct] for a professional  [indistinct]

UNKNOWN: When I was - was - when I was at High School I wanted to do  [indistinct] Science.  I would like to be a professional, I don't want anyone to choose a profession for me, in fact the fact that I'm a student doing that computer course I don't like it.  
 I've been forced and I spend 6 hours there and the instructor there is a - is a racist ...END OF TAPE 2, SIDE A... Mandela otherwise he cannot do otherwise but at home they force me to go back.

<UNKNOWN>: I just want to ask you another question.  You said that your mother complained that after the horrible things that happened to you  that it seems that you were going mad.  Did you at any time receive psychological treatment?

UNKNOWN: I didn't get mad, that is what was said at the hospital.  I cannot say I ran mad because I did not see that happening to me.

<UNKNOWN>: And afterwards there were no emotional problems, you don't get depressed from time to time or emotionally disturbed.  You're able to cope with what happened with you?

UNKNOWN: What I noticed and what I heard from people is that  I am short tempered, I quarrel a lot with people and makes me unhappy.  I become temperamental and thereafter I regret but my mother has been told that I'm being affected by the bullets.  But as for now I - I can't stand for a long time because I - if I stand for long time I have some pains on my back.

<UNKNOWN>: [indistinct] question, you must be 27 years of age if I calculated - calculated correctly, are you married, do you have a family?

UNKNOWN: I do have children -  [indistinct] 3

<UNKNOWN>: 3 children?

MS GOBODO: Thank you, anyone else?  Thank you Andile for coming here before us to come and share your story and your hardship with us.  And in your statement you have mentioned that you ran away because you're running away from dying.  I can have a picture of you running away, hiding in someone's house and there comes someone and - to shoot you.
 Children who were 16 years of age at that time, were getting lost because of there  adolescent  stage but  for the black people all those children who disappeared their parents they had to go to hospitals and Police Station looking for their children.  This is what was happening to the youth during your time.
 We are happy that your are here today to come and share with us how you nearly lost your life, we are happy that you are able to come and sit here and tell us everything about your pain.  You were at school and you had goals but all those goals were shattered.  Then it means that you lost your life in that way, you are still trying to compose it now.  We are going to assist you in trying to recompose your life, we are going to expose you to our Reparation Committee that is going to assist you with your life.
 We also thank you Ms Ndinisa for accompanying Andile, thank you.