Special Report Transcript Episode 13, Section 4, Time 13:17

Then a meeting was planned here in town, at Marawa House in Edendale where Major Eugene Terreblance, he was the head of the Riots Unit at Oribi – he’s now dead – and Captain Brian Mitchell, the station commander - the then station commander of New Hanover, Jerome Gabela and Johan Nxumalo, local Inkatha representatives and Nethi Majozi, a youth Inkatha representative and a very well known Natal Midlands Inkatha leader – he is now a legislative member – David Ntombela. So, in that meeting a plan was hashed to finally go and drive UDF out. But I must stress that they felt that my shop, my house, my family home, was the nucleus or was the base of the UDF. So that is where they planned to hit. If they hit us flat out then their mission would be complete. So special constables were brought by members of the Riot Unit to Trust Feed and they were deployed in strategic points. And then, on the 2nd of December 1988 a police roundup was organized by the station commander, the riot unit and various police from various police stations around New Hanover. They said the purpose of that exercise was in line with what was going on, looking for arms and all that. But later on we learnt that it was not the purpose of the exercise, because only upper Trust Feed was raided by the police. All the young fighting men were taken to the sports field and then, after the parade was over, they were formed into two groups, the Inkatha was let go and then the Comrades were sjambokked by the police, sjambokked and then arrested. Of course they went into detention because a state of emergency had been proclaimed. And then late that night, on the 2nd of December, when they were sure that the young fighting men were detained, then the attack was launched. Because they couldn’t find anyone at my house, they couldn’t find anyone at my home eventually, at the shop, it was burnt down. About 50 metres away from the shop, there was a house in which there was a night vigil, someone had died there of natural causes. All the other houses were dark, only this house was a light, there was a light coming through. Then the police went there, they knocked, they announced themselves as police and they just started shooting.

Notes: Fastus Mbongwe; Newspaper clippings: ‘World intere Trust Feed killings see 7 SAP members in dock’; ‘The massacre’; Trust deaths ‘unforgiveable’’