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Transcripts for Section 4 of Episode 13
| Time | Summary | | | 13:06 | In 1988 the community of Trust Feed was divided by a power struggle. Upper Trust Feed became known as UDF territory and lower Trust Feed belonged to Inkatha. | Full Transcript and References | | 13:17 | Then a meeting was planned here in town, at Marawa House in Edendale where Major Eugene Terreblance, he was the head of the Riots Unit at Oribi – he’s now dead – and Captain Brian Mitchell, the station commander - the then station commander of New Hanover, Jerome Gabela and Johan Nxumalo, local Inkatha representatives and Nethi Majozi, a youth Inkatha representative and a very well known Natal Midlands Inkatha leader – he is now a legislative member – David Ntombela. So, in that meeting a plan was hashed to finally go and drive UDF out. But I must stress that they felt that my shop, my house, my family home, was the nucleus or was the base of the UDF. So that is where they planned to hit. If they hit us flat out then their mission would be complete. So special constables were brought by members of the Riot Unit to Trust Feed and they were deployed in strategic points. And then, on the 2nd of December 1988 a police roundup was organized by the station commander, the riot unit ...more | Full Transcript and References | | 16:09 | Eleven people died in the Trust Feed massacre. Captain Brian Mitchell is serving a 30 year sentence for this crime. Four special policemen who were also convicted have since received indemnity. | Full Transcript | | 16.21 | Later on when the case was tried at the Supreme Court Captain Mitchell said it was a mistake. Now I want to state here, categorically, it was never a mistake, because the murder was planned with the logistics and everything, special constables brought there, put in strategic areas and they knew exactly which houses to attack. So when he says it’s a mistake I totally disagree with that, it was not a mistake. The only mistake I think he was referring to, it was that he did not shoot and kill people whom he had intended, it’s my family, but innocent other people became the victim of the circumstances. But I don’t believe it was a mistake. | Full Transcript | | 17:07 | Today, nobody even seems to remember where the victims have been buried. Many residents fled the village. Most of them will never return, but some like Fastus Mbongwe still want to go back and rebuild the houses on their land. | Full Transcript | | 17:21 | It was very difficult to get into Trust Feed after 1988, when from detention I came to live in Pietermaritzburg as a displacee. Other people could go, I couldn’t go. I couldn’t go because Gabela and Nxumalo did not want me there. They believed that if I came back then the UDF will thrive once again. But now I go there, it’s now peaceful. I go there and I am going to be going back. | Full Transcript |
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