MASEKO, Ben

Thobeko Maseko’s husband, Nelson became unpopular with the ANC Youth League when he criticized them for marching a girl naked through the Plettenberg township in March 1990. // This young man went for him, the three of them Sishuba, Tyki and Sabata. There’s a fourth one whom I didn’t know but ...

On our arrival there people were actually singing freedom songs. I was standing there looking at the people. As I was looking there up front, it was my first time to see such a big gun. // It was already late, then we found this place full with those who came in before. Then the police have already ...

Amos Maseko’s escape was only temporary. An all-night vigil was held for those killed at Kabukwene a week after the incident. On his way home from the KaNyamazane stadium Amos again encountered the police. // Then when we are on our way back home, because we didn’t have transport, because those ...

I hear just one shot. I don’t know whether they were shooting someone or he was pointing up, I couldn’t see. I just hear the shot. // I was over by the gate. Over there. When they start firing I just ran around the barbed wire over that mountain there. And I just ran over the mountain up to ...

... there to support fellow students who were charged with public violence. Although the court building is no longer there Elizabeth Mdluli and Amos Maseko remember the day it drew students and police together in conflict. ...