hrvtrans HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, SUBMISSIONS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1997-03-25 LUSIKISIKI 2 LUSIKISIKI NQEKE FANI https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/hearing.php?id=55548&t=&tab=hearings https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/originals/hrvtrans/lusiki/fani.htm MS FANI (sworn states) ADV SANDI Mrs Fani your full names please. MS FANI Nqeke Fani. ADV SANDI You are going to tell us what happened to you at the time of this incident. Can you please tell us what happened to you Mrs Fani? MS FANI My arm was broken and my back was also affected. ADV SANDI Were these people looking for your husband who is sitting next to you now? MS FANI Yes. His name is Mlandelwa Fani. ADV SANDI The police were looking for him because he was a member of Congo? MS FANI Yes they were looking for him because he was a member of Congo. ADV SANDI Let us talk about you Mrs Fani. You said that when the police arrested you they beat you up. MS FANI Yes. ADV SANDI Can you please tell us fully how the police would beat you up? MS FANI Yes I can tell you. They would beat me with rifles and kick me and my back was affected because of that. And they would beat me with the back of a rifle on my shoulders. ADV SANDI At the time that they were beating you, were they looking for your husband? MS FANI Yes but he was not there at the time. He ran away. ADV SANDI Do you have a request other than the ones that you have mentioned in your statement to this Commission? MS FANI No. ADV SANDI Is that all that you want to say Mrs Fani. MS FANI Can you please repeat. ADV SANDI Is that all you want to say Mrs Fani. MS FANI Yes that is all. My back was affected. ADV SANDI We will now go to Mr Fani? Mr Fani, Mrs Fani has already told us that you were arrested at home and you were beaten up. The police were looking for you. Did they eventually find you Mr Fani? MR FANI I cannot hear you clearly Sir. ADV SANDI Did the police find your Mr Fani, as they were looking for you at the time? MR FANI Yes they found me. ADV SANDI What happened to you when you were arrested by the police? MR FANI They were beating me up. They slapped me in my face and I cannot see. I am blind now and my ears cannot hear properly. And when I was arrested they killed my livestock, my cattle and sheep and my horses. I do not know who killed them but they were killed during this incident. ADV SANDI At the time of this incident, was it after the Nonqulana incident, when people were killed? MR FANI Are you speaking about Nonqulana? ADV SANDI Yes. MR FANI Yes, it was after the Nonqulana incident, after the people were shot there. ADV SANDI When the police were beating you up, were you affected or were you injured in your body? MR FANI Yes, I was injured. I went to hospital. ADV SANDI How were you injured? MR FANI I was stabbed in my chest. ADV SANDI Were you stabbed in detention? MR FANI At home, when they were arresting me at home. I was trying to run away into the bushes. ADV SANDI The requests that are written in your documents, do you have other requests that you would like to add? These requests will be taken to the President when we give him our report. Do you have other requests? MR FANI I have them. ADV SANDI Will you tell us about them please? MR FANI I was terribly injured. They burnt down everything that I had endeavoured to build, even when I was injured. ADV SANDI Is there a request Sir that you would like to give to the Commission. MR FANI When I had my livestock I was well, I lived well. If there is any way in which you could help, would you please do that. ADV SANDI Thank you Mr Fani. MR FANI Thank you Mr Chairperson. ADV SANDI Rev Xundu would you please give the microphone to Mrs Fani? ADV SANDI You see that in your husband's statement his house and his livestock were burnt down. Who burnt down your house and your livestock? MRS FANI I do not know. It was at night. The house was burnt down at night. My livestock would die now and again, apparently poisoned, or stolen. ADV SANDI Did anyone in the village have an idea of what happened. MRS FANI No. ADV SANDI Thank you. MRS FANI Thank you.