Most people had a clear idea of the beginnings of the disturbances in Mabvuku, the sequence of actual events as they took place. There was concurrence between those who directly witnessed the beginning, those who came later, and even those who merely heard about the events. First Coca-Cola, then Dairy board truck then Tafadzwa, then Bata, Then they came to Prices. Then they were here, they wanted Marowa. So that’s when the police came. I think the problem was that there was no police at the time it started. There were only four of they … The crowd was throwing stones at them. They were only four, so they were throwing stones at them so they had to run away. And one Santana was burnt to ashes. That’s when the police came, but people had already gone out of there and most of the damage was already done. And most of the stores were looted. There was nothing. What I can simply say is the first time people were here, destroying the shops. Getting inside the shops. Taking food stuffs. The other ones ... what I remember is that they entered that Bata Shop right over there (points in that direction). I was right over there. So they break and get inside. They first took the shoes which was displayed. Later on they break into the inside, so they were taking pairs of shoes outside. There was a Coca-Cola van which had come for delivery at the Tsokachena supermarket, then a certain group of guys came and they started taking the drinks from the delivery van. Then within a few hours there was a crowd, a lot of people. Those guys they were taking the drinks and taking them home. So those people in the community saw the drinks and they came to collect them they off- loaded the whole truck, Then from there the crowd was getting bigger and bigger. I remember it was in the morning, at around 10 when I wanted to go to Chisipite, Kamfinsa I wanted to go see a friend of mine, who was working there. So I came here (to the shops) and there was people all over. I waited for transport around the shopping area. So I waited for transport, some lift, or whatever, buses. By that bus stop there. On the corner, I couldn’t get one. So I started to go back to my place. I started walking, walked and walked. The people, they were around these shops. They were telling the shop owner to close. That’s what I saw. I didn’t come near. I wasn’t all that near that I could see what was really happening, around this place. So I just sort of ignored the people. I’m not interested in crowded places, where there are so many people, you know, that start to be violent. So I had to go back, my way home … I saw some people coming. And there were some riots police. The said they were coming here (to the shops) to investigate what was taking place. Stop the people from breaking the stores I think, I didn’t have any problems I just went home. I got into a pub. You know that pub, Red Bull, near my place, with some other friends. We started drinking beer. That was around 11. We were there drinking, drinking. Whilst we were in the pub we heard that the other bottle stores, which was near that place, called Makwavarara, they broke in there. I just heard from some people whose I was in the beer hall, drinking with a lot of friends. It was those people who were collecting who had seen the action taking place, telling stories. We said, “Here we are safe”’ cause we don’t break, we just drink here, no breaking, Drinking -drinking. Then some time when the riot people came, police. Then they fired some tear gas. On Monday I was at the new stands (in Mabvuku) in a house. The ones right next to Maresa beer hall. We heard a lot of commotion. So I went up, I started to go in the direction of the commotion, and I was told by people, Don’t travel there. One person was not in the suburb on Monday, 19 January 1998, but was in hospital and there witnessed the effects of the riots in the persons being brought in for treatment.