DQ:
Defense is calling a peaceful protester as a witness. How did you protest against apartheid?
PP:
At first, writing letters to government, but I didn't get a response. Then we wrote group letters but still didn't get any response. Then we started peaceful protests, like stay-at-homes and sit-ins, basically following Gandhi's way of protesting. In 1960 at Sharpeville, we and the PAC called for peaceful protests, and the police shot and killed 69 blacks. I'm a peaceful protester and a victim of brutality.
PQ:
If the ANC were people that followed Gandhi's principles, why would you resort to violence? Wasn't Gandhi a man of peaceful protests?
PP:
We didn't have anything to do with violence. We just called for peaceful protests, and we were reprimanded with violence.
PQ:
However, if you support the ANC, which used violent methods, isn't that supporting violence, the thing you were against?
PP:
No.
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