NKOSIPHENDULE NAKWA: (sworn states)
ADV SANDI: Mr Nakwa as I am looking to your statement here you are going to tell us about your father, Mzayifani Alfred Nakwa.
MR NAKWA: Yes, that is correct Sir.
ADV SANDI: You have mentioned your uncle, Golete Nakwa.
ADV SANDI: You are going to tell us about these two people here.
ADV SANDI: Let us begin with your father's story. You said that he was arrested. For how long was he arrested?
MR NAKWA: As I was still young at the time I am not sure about this, but I can just estimate that it was plus minus one year.
ADV SANDI: How old were you at the time of this incident?
MR NAKWA: I was about seven years old.
ADV SANDI: Your father, was he a member of Congo?
MR NAKWA: Yes I can say so, although I cannot be sure, but because he was arrested at the time when Congo members were arrested, I can say so.
ADV SANDI: How was his health at the time of his release?
MR NAKWA: He was very sick and as I was young at the time I saw him being beaten up by the boers, because they would kick him and would beat him with the back of their rifles.
ADV SANDI: You mean that on this day that he was arrested, you were there, and you saw them beating him up?
MR NAKWA: Yes, I saw all this.
ADV SANDI: How did you feel when you saw your father being beaten up in front of you as you were still a child and he was your father.
MR NAKWA: This was very painful to us. Even today I have a picture of that day.
ADV SANDI: What did he say happened while he was in prison?
MR NAKWA: He told us that they were not fed well and it was very cold inside.
ADV SANDI: You said that he passed away in 1973.
ADV SANDI: And he died due to injuries sustained in prison?
MR NAKWA: Yes, because since then he was not well and he could even go back to work to work for us, because I could not even go to school, because he wanted me to go to school, but he could not go back to work to work for us.
ADV SANDI: Do you have a request you want to make to this Commission?
MR NAKWA: Yes Sir. I have children and I would like the Commission to help me in my children's education.
ADV SANDI: Let us now go to the case of Golete Nakwa who was also arrested. Can you please tell us what happened to him?
MR NAKWA: I do not know where he was arrested. I did not see when they arrested him. I just heard that my uncle was also arrested, as they were arresting anybody in the village. I saw him when he came back from jail. I
do not know where they arrested him, but he just told us that he was arrested.
ADV SANDI: Was he also a member of Congo?
MR NAKWA: Yes, he was a member of Congo.
ADV SANDI: What was his state of health when he came back from prison.
MR NAKWA: He was coughing all the time. He was also vomiting and he died later on.
ADV SANDI: You have already mentioned the requests to this Commission concerning yourself and your children. Do you have any other requests for the Commission to pass on to the President?