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Special Report Transcript Episode 23, Section 5, Time 22:55

Mining is what keeps the wheels of Welkom turning. Together with Alanridge and Virginia, it forms the second richest gold mining area in the country. The city is young and growing. It is surrounded by rural Free State towns like Brandfort, Odendaalsrus and Kroonstad, traditional farming communities. It is a working class area where the changes that have swept the rest of South Africa have barely shaken long-established ways. This week in Welkom people came to the Truth Commission to speak out the pain caused by the divisions in their part of the world. Patrick Morake and a friend were driving to Bloemfontein when his car was attacked near Brandfort by white Afrikaans speaking men wearing khaki clothes. He is convinced that the men who shot at him and his friend were ‘wit wolwe.’

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A PAC supporter who was shot and injured when the car he was travelling in from Theunissen to Bloemfontein was ambushed, allegedly by Wit Wolwe, in 1993.
 
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