Special Report Transcript Episode 1, Section 2, Time 10:49

The Pebco Three were driven to a farm house that was turned into a police station long time ago but it was no more used. And they were driven there, they were put into a, what we call an animal shelter, it’s like a big long garage. They were put there for the evening, but they were interrogated first. And the first thing in the morning, at about 9 am, the joint security forces of Cape Town came in. That was Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, and Cradock, they just came in there and they started interrogating these people. And the first person to be interrogated was Sipho Hashe. // How were they interrogated? // It was brutal. It was what in Afrikaans people called ‘broekskeur’. It was terrible. // Were they tortured? // They were tortured severely, they were savaged; they were brutalized. // What was your role in the torture? // My role was to strangle them and to stifle them so they couldn’t make enough noise, because there were some neighbouring farmhouses nearby. So, we carried out our instructions but … // Were they eventually killed? // … and Niewoudt beat them up with an iron pipe into their heads so severely that … they were kicked, they were punished, they were stomped, they were jumped over their heads, and they were killed, yes. They died, they died one by one. It was terrible. I have never seen anything like that in my life. It was a blazing hell on earth.

Notes: Joe Mamasela interviewed

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