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Special Report Transcript Episode 11, Section 4, Time 16:50In GaMatlala in 1979, the former government people came there to come and take our animals. They took donkeys and goats and cattle. After that only after two weeks, they came back to burn our huts. They burned our huts, and all our property inside. Everything that was inside the house was burned, there’s nothing which was left. My father and others were assaulted and the reason was because of the apartheid government and they were members of the African National Congress. They were assaulted by the people of the traditional chiefs. They were sent by our chief called Matlala. Notes: TRC testimony: Sydwell Rammotla He had his home burnt down on 2 February 1980 in GaMatlala, Lebowa, in an attack on his village, allegedly by supporters of Chief BK Matlala because the village resisted Lebowa’s proposed independence from South Africa. Mr Rammutla was also assaulted with knobkerries. |