CHAIRPERSON: Our next witness is Nozipho Rina Vusani.
NOZIPHO RINA VUSANI: (sworn states)
CHAIRPERSON: How are you Nozipho?
MS VUSANI: I am fine.
CHAIRPERSON: In your statement you are going to talk about your brother Mgcineni Vusani who was shot on that particular day of the Langa Massacre, whose body was found after two weeks, after searching and searching since he left for the march to the funeral. Can you please explain to us how old was he. Was he at school or was he working.
MS VUSANI: He was working, he was not at school. He was the only pillar at home. My mother and father were not working. He was the only breadwinner. He was working.
CHAIRPERSON: He indicated that he can be a real breadwinner permanently. How did the whole thing affect you, his death?
MS VUSANI: It affected us most. During that time, my mother was not well, and she suffered from a stroke. My father was also affected. In 1985 December, he died. Both parents died, my father died in 1990. It is only me and my sister, there is no one who is working.
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CHAIRPERSON: Was this Mgcineni the only brother?
MS VUSANI: No, we had other brothers, but he was the only one staying at home. The other brothers were staying outside.
CHAIRPERSON: Who is responsible for your mother's treatment?
MS VUSANI: She passed away in 1985. It was for the first time that she experienced this thing. We were from somewhere else, we had just relocated to Uitenhage. It was very bad, it was tense. It was the very first day that my brother had decided to go to a toyi toyi. Unfortunately he was attacked.
CHAIRPERSON: What is your request as a family?
MS VUSANI: Because there is nobody who is working now, I request that the Truth Commission do something, anything. CHAIRPERSON: In the Jubilee Hall, was there any money that you received?
MS VUSANI: Yes, we got R4 000.
CHAIRPERSON: Is there anything else that you would like to add in your statement?
MS VUSANI: I request that something should be done for us to help us because we are not working, we are unemployed. Thank you very much.
CHAIRPERSON: I am going to hand over and see if there are any other questions. Thank you very much. We are going to adjourn now for lunch and thereafter we are going to take the others who are still here from the family victims.
COMMISSION ADJOURNS FOR LUNCH
