hrvtrans HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION HEARINGS 1996-10-15 WINELANDS 2 CT/00264 STANLEY MANYEFANE KOLEKA MANYEFANE SHOT & KILLED https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/hearing.php?id=56123&t=&tab=hearings https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/originals/hrvtrans/wineland/ct00264.htm DR ORR Ms Manyefane can you hear me? MS MANYEFANE Yes, I can hear you. DR ORR Can you hear my voice through the headphones? I would like to say good afternoon to you and your daughter that you brought along today to assist you. Before we listen to your testimony, I would like you to stand to take the oath. KOLEKA MANYEFANE Duly sworn states DR ORR REV XUNDU MS MANYEFANE What is your clan name? REV XUNDU Maxhashu, what is your clan name? MS MANYEFANE Mashangu. REV XUNDU MS MANYEFANE I got a report that Thembelani was going the Q-block screaming. I left my house running towards the Q-block - as I turned the corner where my son had turned I saw him on a field, lying on his back. When I got there he was still breathing but with difficulty. He was bleeding everywhere from head to toe, I then turned back. The people that stay in my block - the H-block - were waiting for me. I then called them. They could not hear me, I went closer trying to call them. Then a young man, Petrus Mangena, came also my husband came. They then realized that my child is dying. REV XUNDU MS MANYEFANE My shot was being cased by the police but it is the AZAPO children that were standing next to him. REV XUNDU Were the police taking photographs at the time? MS MANYEFANE REV XUNDU Then your husband, Sydney, organized transport? MS MANYEFANE Yes, he organized transport. Botes came with his transport, they then left to go to the hospital. They asked me to - to stay behind. When they got the hospital my child was to injured and he had to be transferred to the Tygerberg Hospital. I was there at the time and I insisted that I see my son. He was under an oxygen tank at the time, it is his head that was meagerly injured. There was internal bleeding on his brain so he could not be helped. REV XUNDU Was he taken to Tygerberg? MS MANYEFANE Yes he was transferred to Tygerberg. REV XUNDU Then you later ascertained that there was a difference between - because he just - his health just deteriorated? MS MANYEFANE The next day the Referent came to my house, I was already sleeping. My husband was not there because they had to be on guard as the AZAPO wanted to attack us. My husband and other men woke we up to tell me that my child had passed away. REV XUNDU MS MANYEFANE There would be prayers - night [indistinct] but the police would interrupt. We tried to continue with our prayers but the police would come, demanding that there should be no prayers. REV XUNDU MS MANYEFANE REV XUNDU After the funeral did - was there a court case? MS MANYEFANE They said I - this is not acceptable, I must go and make a statement. I did not go the first time, the second time when they came my husband was there. My husband then said I should go, they wanted to know what I had seen. REV XUNDU After the statement was there a court case perhaps? MS MANYEFANE No there was no court case, but after a long while - the following year a car with a Cape Town registration came to my house saying that there are people of the Law from Bellville. They came to tell us that we were requested to go to Bellville. My husband did not go to work that day, we drove to Bellville. At about 12 when we got there these boers said they have called us to tell us that there is no case because they can not get the perpetrators. Amongst these boers there was a police called Victor, these police that were prosecuting us even after they had killed my son. REV XUNDU MS MANYEFANE It is Victor. REV XUNDU MS MANYEFANE We was working sir. REV XUNDU Where was he working? MS MANYEFANE He had been working in a butchery. REV XUNDU Did Thembelani have a pension in the butchery? MS MANYEFANE No, there was no pension but what the employers did is to give a donation to us. REV XUNDU Did Thembelani have a child? MS MANYEFANE Yes, Thembelani had impregnated a child. When Thembelani died this child was 3 months old. REV XUNDU MS MANYEFANE REV XUNDU MS MANYEFANE I also request that the Commission investigates about this case. The court in Paarl and Bellville was not investigated in a satisfactory manner. If the Commission could investigate for me and do what it can for me I would appreciate that. REV XUNDU Thank you, I will ask Wendy to read the results of the Investigation Unit and then I will hand over to our Chairperson, thank you. DR ORR I would just like to - to let you know that we have started investigating this matter and our investigators have retrieved the Inquest Docket from Bellville Court and I will read the result of the inquest in Afrikaans as it is in the document. The cause of death is stated as being a head injury when he was attacked by a group of black people. This assault took place during the morning and the perpetrators could not be identified. As you say you are not satisfied with that so we will indeed investigate this matter further as we do with all cases which are brought to the Commission. CHAIRPERSON Any questions? MS MANYEFANE CHAIRPERSON MS MANYEFANE CHAIRPERSON