Special Report Transcript Episode 18, Section 5, Time 27:55

But once the comrades left the relative safety of the hills the realities of the deepening political conflict of the time closed in around them. Kabasa’s terror often came in the dark. // Round about half past two in the morning we were awaken by a huge sound, a huge bang, and when I woke up with my brothers I saw the house was on fire. We tried our way out. There were flames in all the windows. // Well, fortunately some of the petrol bombs didn’t explode but the majority, there are about 11, when we counted them I think there were eleven petrol bombs that were thrown inside the house. The intention of that, it is clear, is to kill. They had guns and we had only stones. Sometimes we used to use petrol bombs but they were ineffective to those guns, because they had big guns.

Notes: Neville Shabangu; Milcharles Shabangu