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NXUMALO, (first name not given)

Age 8

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Was shot in the knee by members of the SAP in Atteridgeville, Pretoria, on 15 November 1976 as he ran towards a helicopter approaching th epolice station and allegedly bringing the Minister of Police to the township. The boy spent six months in hospital.

... 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 ...
... detention I came to live in Pietermaritzburg as a displacee. Other people could go, I couldn’t go. I couldn’t go because Gabela and Nxumalo did not want me there. They believed that if I came back then the UDF will thrive once again. But now I go there, it’s now peaceful. I go there and I ...
... and none of these officers were in police uniform. They all were wearing jeans, takkies and t-shirts. I mean, who’s going to stop for them? I’m not going to stop in the middle of the night if some guy jump in front of me with a machine gun, and say police! I’m gonna go right through ...
 
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