MBATHA, (full names not given)

Within days two Zulu youths were brought here, to Winnie Mandela’s house. She asked they be shown the location of Dr Asvat’s surgery. Their guide was Katiza.

I realize that police were there but I felt as if I was dreaming because I didn’t believe that police could be there.

And just as I was getting under the bed, trying to hide myself, they gained entry into the house and they asked where the dogs were. As I was trying to hide under the bed, they came, they stabbed me all over the body, they even stabbed me on my neck and now I’m a quadriplegic.

It was at about 9 o’clock in the evening and we heard the sound of shattering windows. As we were still asking ourselves as to what the problem could be we heard some voices mumbling at the door.

And in the morning the very same people came in the very same uniform. They were still like the previous day. They took my name. They said they needed some statements as to who had injured the people. I was quite scared to tell them that you are the ones that were here yesterday.

I realize that police were there but I felt as if I was dreaming because I didn’t believe that police could be there.

They were driving hippos when they came into the township. Even when they went back, they were driving in hippos. Because when we went to Sebokeng Hospital the hippos were driving them into Kwamadala Hostel.

And just as I was getting under the bed, trying to hide myself, they gained entry into the house and they asked where the dogs were. As I was trying to hide under the bed, they came, they stabbed me all over the body, they even stabbed me on my neck and now I’m a quadriplegic.

And in the morning the very same people came in the very same uniform. They were still like the previous day. They took my name. They said they needed some statements as to who had injured the people. I was quite scared to tell them that you are the ones that were here yesterday.

It was at about 9 o’clock in the evening and we heard the sound of shattering windows. As we were still asking ourselves as to what the problem could be we heard some voices mumbling at the door.

We drove off to Dr Asvat’s surgery and the driver and myself parted ways, we waited for them to be removed from the place or to disappear from the place. We went into the surgery and we carried out the instruction that was given to us earlier on.

They were driving hippo’s when they came into the township. Even when they went back, they were driving in hippo’s. Because when we went to Sebokeng hospital the hippo’s were driving them into Kwamadala Hostel.

that the Asvat family has been troubled, wanting to know as to the circumstances surrounding their relative, their father or their family’s death, not getting any truth from anyone. And I thank the good lord that he has kept me to such time that I found this opportunity to come clean and ask for ...

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We have heard here the evidence of the killers, Dlamini and Mbatha who on one version would say that they committed the murder on Dr Asvat at your instructions. Had you met Mbatha before? // I actually saw them for the first time here. // Had you met Dlamini before? // I had never met any of them.

Thulani Dlamini and Zakele Cyril Mbatha were arrested shortly after the murder; charged, tried and sentenced for the killing of Dr Asvat. Mbatha and Dlamini testified that Winnie gave them the gun with which they killed Asvat.

... After we heard that there could be some form of intimidation or threats against your person or your family we as the Commission decided that we are not going to tolerate that type of behaviour or ...

I understood, because the truth was to them a heresy and persevered because I believed that the morality of our cause will vindicate all of us. I do not understand when agents in our fledgling democracy undermine the structures of the TRC and swop information with the media, with the purpose to ...

Fred Dempsey, Henk Hesslinga and HT Moodley are the three policemen who investigated the Asvat murder. They were asked why they had never questioned Madikizela-Mandela over the killing. In spite of Mbatha and Dlamini’s statements implicating her.