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Transcripts for Section 4 of Episode 18
| Time | Summary | | | 21:00 | On March 11 1986, 80 school children were shot in the back with buck shot outside the Kabukweni magistrate’s court in the former KaNgwane. Three of them died. The SABC did not report the event then. The SABC does so now. | Full Transcript | | 21:20 | Many of the victims at the Nelspruit hearings this week were teenagers at a time when education was not necessarily academic. And it was difficult to distinguish between a playground and a war zone. In the mid-eighties they embraced the struggle for liberation determinedly regardless of the cost. Hundreds of school children gathered at the Kabukweni magistrate’s court on 11 March 1986. They were 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. | Full Transcript and References | | 22:00 | 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 put the barbed wire so that no more people can go into the court because the court was so small. We waited outside the fence and we talked to the policeman to allow us to be in the court. They said the court is too small for all of us; it can’t accommodate all of us. Then they say, okay you’ve got to wait outside. So seeing that the time was going, those who were in front, they tried to push the fence down so that they can get into the court. Then the police started firing at us. | Full Transcript | | 23:00 | 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 Pienaar. // Three children died and 80 were injured. Most were shot in the back. Although Amos made it safely home that day, Elizabeth was not so lucky. // Then after, I think all the police were shooting now. Then, I was shot here, at the back. When I was shot I just feel something like lightning. When I was [inaudible] that nurse come and help me, he catch me. Then I was bleeding, blood was coming from my nose and my mouth. The way I was feeling, I was thinking of dying, only that, I was praying that God could take me, the way I was feeling. I was in a bad situation. | Full Transcript | | 24:15 | 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 buses that brought us to the stadium were already gone. And we didn’t have any choice; we had to walk up to where we were staying. Then we walked up to ward six next to the [inaudible] store and over there we met three police vans, which were powder blue in colour. And those policemen they didn’t even have a word with us, they didn’t say anything, they just start shooting at us. Bad luck for me, because I was shot by that time. And I didn’t even feel it, because by the time the bullet hit me I just went down. Then all of a sudden I stood up and I saw the front of my shirt full of blood. Then another guy who was with me by the time said, hey check you are shot now. Then when I check ...more | Full Transcript | | 25:30 | These casualties of war were overlooked by the media at a time when repression was at its harshest. Perhaps its audience did not want to know about the fierce commitment of the resistance. It was a militancy fuelled not by political affiliation but by a genuine feeling of solidarity. | Full Transcript | | 25:45 | What was on us, we were saying an injury to one was an injury to all. If someone has a problem you mustn’t just leave her with that problem you must stand with her or him. That is why we decided to go there. No matter we were arrested. It was fine to us. | Full Transcript |
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