Special Report Transcript Episode 70, Section 3, Time 48:23

Well as we have said, it is a medicinal help. This thing really works, because the people who believe in all these things become the victim of them. Without them they cannot do anything. With them can do anything. As you know there was war here in Richmond, there’s a lot that I experienced and I’ve written a book about the violence here in Richmond. There were times where the people from this side were not keen to fight or to defend their area, they’ll always tell their parents that their parents need to buy Intelezi for them. So at the end of the day these Intelezi and something of that sort has a psychological effect in the minds of the people who are involved in war. // It is their belief. So you know, when this violence started the boys from the other area of Makotha, whenever the IFP was approaching with the whistle, blowing the whistle, they would run for their lives. When they come here next to my house, running past it I’d ask them why are you running. They’d say whenever there’s people blowing this whistle our stomachs really turn, we would always get runny stomachs. No, you must get Intelezi. And after they got that Intelezi they were not running. So I am saying it is in one’s mind. If they believe in it, you can’t do without it. So that’s exactly what was happening here. They will tell you that whenever they are blowing this whistle, they get runny stomachs and they run. But after they’ve used that Intelezi that they bought, they were not running.

Notes: Sfiso Nkabinde (Former ANC leader, Richmond)

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