Special Report Transcript Episode 76, Section 2, Time 17:37

Were assaults perpetrated on this occasion, on these boys that were brought from the manse? // She actually started to hit Kenny. She said Kenny must stand up and then she asked questions. Why are you submitting to a white man? Then she started to hit Kenny and then saying that you’re not fit to live, fit to be alive. // What happened after that? // She hit the others. She hit Kenny then when Kenny tried to block the fists then the other comrades at Mandela’s place, that is the football club, held Kenny on both hands so that he couldn’t block the fists from Mrs. Mandela. // Did you participate in the assaults on … // So after that hell broke out. They were beaten. I never participated. I was ordered by Mrs. Mandela to go and sing. After singing, because everybody was just beating and beating and actually singing, because I was a bit scared and puzzled. What is, are these supposed victims, are these the ones who are supposed to be beaten? Because those were victims of sexual abuse, they were supposed to be victims of sexual abuse, not to be assaulted but to be kept until Father Paul Verryn comes from wherever he had gone to. // Did you see what the conditions of the boys were after they had suffered these assaults? // Yes. // And what was their condition? // When Stompie was assaulted he fainted. Then the boys went out, the comrades from Mrs. Mandela’s place went out to fetch a bucket of water. They poured the water on Stompie’s body, then he woke up and tried to run away; they caught him.

Notes: Stephen Kuny (Lawyer for Falati); Xoliswa Falati