I, Goitseone Gordon Moshoeu, generally known in the African National Congress as Godfrey Pule and particularly known amongst members of the MK June 16 Detachment as Grenade, hereby wishes to give an account of the terrible plight that befell Timothy “Chief” Seremane, popularly known as Mahamba amongst both the ANC in general and specifically MK.
I first met Chief Seremane here at home in Mafikeng. He was a contemporary of my brother Gabriel Paki Moshoeu, later to be named Rodgers Mayalo in the same June 16 Detachment to which we all belonged, Chief Seremane included.
I fled into exile in 1976. By December 1976, I was together with Chief Seremane in Luanda, Angola, at a former Portuguese military camp known as Engineering.
On the January 13 1981, I was arbitrarily locked up in the notorious ANC Quatro death camp, where I spent four years.
While at Quatro, inmates were not allowed to even know other inmates, never mind seeing them. But I knew when Chief Seremane was also brought to Quatro in the middle of 1981.
Only then did I realise that this disfigured person was Chief Seremane.
In 1983, Andrew Masondo, one-time ANC National Commissar in conjunction with Joe Modise under the instructions of Mzwai Piliso organised a kangaroo court.
I was fortunate to be sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and hard labour by this court. In the court an inmate could not speak. We were called one after the other to simply come and receive sentences.
Some inmates received death sentences. Among those was Chief Timothy Seremane and my brother Gabriel Paki Moshoeu. All in all 13 inmates were sentenced to death during this time.
This group was all executed by firing squad in a valley that lies behind Quatro. It is in this valley where the bones of our sons and daughters of our Motherland are thrown.