hrvtrans HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, SUBMISSIONS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1997-03-25 LUSIKISIKI 2 LUSIKISIKI NONI MABHALA GCABA https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/hearing.php?id=55549&t=&tab=hearings https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/originals/hrvtrans/lusiki/gaba.htm NONI MABHALA GCABA (sworn states) MS MAYA Good afternoon Mrs Gcaba. MS GCABA Good afternoon. MS MAYA You are going to talk about James Notununu who has passed away. Is that so? MS GCABA Yes. MS MAYA How are you related? MS GCABA He is my father. MS MAYA You say that he was detained and tortured. Do you have any idea how he was tortured? MS GCABA Yes, he came back and told us that they beat him up on his genitals. They were tortured in all sorts of ways. MS MAYA Where was he detained? MS GCABA Where Mandela was detained. MS MAYA Was this in Robben Island? MS GCABA Yes. MS MAYA Until when was he detained? MS GCABA It was from 1960 to 1961. He was very ill. He was taken to Clarewood and King Edward Hospitals in Durban. He came back eventually and he passed away at home. MS MAYA What was he ill of? MS GCABA He said that he had been given poison to drink. It affected his lungs. His one lung collapsed. The other lung collapsed too and that was when he passed away. He came back in 1961. Then I think he passed away in 1963. MS MAYA According to your statement he and other detainees were given poison to drink and they all passed away. MS GCABA Yes, a man from the Mangatywa family, Skunana, they all drank poison and eventually passed away. MS MAYA Is there anything else that you would like to add? MS GCABA Well, my mother died. She had a heart failure and a stroke and passed away. Because of the whole situation we were left as orphans. MS MAYA When did your mother die? MS GCABA In 1985. MS MAYA Do you have requests. MS GCABA My parents were buried in separate places Their request before they passed away is that they be buried in the same place. It means that my father would be exhumed and come and be buried next to my mother. MS MAYA Where is you father buried? MS GCABA In Jusana and my mother at my brother's place in Mcobothini. MS MAYA Thank you madam. Is that all? MS GCABA Yes thank you.