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| 02:03 | The disappearance of the three Mamelodi men remained a mystery for almost 10 years. Elizabeth Maake, Lizzie Sefolo and Mabel Makupe had to read the story of their death in the newspaper. We have known since the beginning of the year that Mamasela was there when Maake, Makupe and Sefolo were electrocuted to death. Now we know who gave him his orders. // Jackson Maake was a student. // When the sun shine you know, I think about my child. When the sun sets I think about my child. This thing you know is hurting me. // Paul van Vuuren said that he was an informer for the security police. They became suspicious that he might be a double agent and that he smuggled arms for the ANC in a car that they provided for him. He was the first to be picked up and tortured. | Full Transcript and References |
| 02:56 | We used the generator. There were two wires, one was connected to his foot and one was connected to his hand. Then when you switched the generator on it shocks the person and his body goes rigid. During the interrogation it became clear that his contact in Mamelodi was a certain Andrew Makupe. | Full Transcript |
| 03:23 | Andrew Makupe was a member of the ANC. // He was a nice guy. He was like a brother to me, a father. He was everything to me, because he had no sister, he’s the only child to his mother. So I was like a sister to him. We were a very happy family. | Full Transcript |
| 03:42 | We pulled him off the road. As far as I remember he was driving a blue Gold Galant, although I’m not exactly sure about this. We put Makupe in our minibus and one of us followed with the Gold Galant, I believe this was sergeant Mamasela. We left Maake and Makupe at the property about five kilometres north of the Pienaarsrivier dam. At dawn Hechter, Mamasela and myself returned to the property. We interrogated Makupe in the same way as we interrogated Maake; that means we also gave him electrical shocks with the generator. I received information from him that he was responsible for the transport of arms and that he received his instructions from Harold Sefolo. | Full Transcript |
| 04:33 | Harold Sefolo was a business man and owned a general dealer in Witbank. // He was someone who loved his family very much. So their disappearance disturbed us a lot, because we knew that if he has just left to somewhere he will come back again very soon. So we’ve been waiting for him to be home but only to find that for weeks, months he doesn’t come. | Full Transcript |
| 05:05 | That night Mamasela, myself and Hechter went to Witbank. We used two vehicles. Hechter and myself waited outside Witbank on the main road and Mamasela went ahead on his own. After about two hours he returned with Sefolo. We returned to the property to the north of the Pienaars river. We also interrogated Sefolo in a similar manner as the others. Mamasela forced a knife in Sefolo’s mouth after which he provided additional information. He also begged for his life. Mamasela and myself untied him. He asked if he can say something. I agreed to it. He asked if he could sing Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika and he said that we had better kill him. He also claimed that the ANC would govern later, that apartheid could no longer be able to be maintained and a democracy would be the end of the Boers. Mamasela had an ANC flag present which was with us then. He threw this over Maake whilst Sefolo sang Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika. We then shocked Makupe to death. | Full Transcript |
| 06:25 | Van Vuuren, Mamasela and Hechter then blew up the bodies with a landmine, so that it would be impossible to recognize them. | Full Transcript |
| 06:35 | If they can come to me, he must come to my house. Van Vuuren must come to my house and sit down and say Mrs. Makope I’ve done wrong. Maybe we’ll talk, and then miracles will happen. | Full Transcript |
| 06:50 | But perhaps miracles will not happen. Paul van Vuuren tries not to think about what he did in those years. // I cannot always think back about the past I will never sleep. | Full Transcript |
| 07:10 | Brigadier Jack Cronje, former commander of the Northern Transvaal security branch calmly told the Amnesty Committee of yet another calculated and chilling execution in 1986. The victims, ten young men from Mamelodi who were poisoned and then blown up in a minibus. They were killed because they wanted to go for military training with the ANC in Botswana. There was no question of arresting or detaining them, Cronje said. For the first time the members of the Amnesty Committee, particularly Judge Hassan Mall were visibly shocked at the gruesome details placed before them. | Full Transcript and References |
| 07:50 | June, 1986 in Mamelodi. The township a stone’s throw away from the seat of apartheid power, Pretoria. The big men who make and break the laws had just declared a state of emergency across the land. Ten days after the state of emergency ten young men disappeared from Mamelodi. It is known only that they were comrades. Like most black youth at the time they were prepared to do battle against the big men with their mighty powers. Ten years later, this week, their parents heard what had happened to their sons. They were killed by military and police men who did not even know their names. They have become known as the ‘Nietverdiend Ten,’ ‘nietverdiend’ meaning ‘not deserved.’ | Full Transcript and References |
| 08:38 | Joe Mamasela infiltrated a group of young activists in Mamelodi. He informed me that they wanted to receive military training abroad. A meeting was arranged between myself and Col Charl Naude, Special Forces where we discussed this matter. I made this kombi available to Mamasela and he arranged to take these MK soldiers, or intended MK soldiers across the border at Nietverdiend to Botswana for training purposes. I met Mamasela in town. I told him to drive the Nietverdiend road. And then to turn down that particular dirt road close to Nietverdiend. But there was a further kombi at the scene before, of Charl Naude’s operatives whom I do not know. All of them were wearing balaclava caps and they were awaiting Mamasela at that point. When he stopped they took the persons out of this vehicle, they were under the influence of alcohol to a considerable extend at that time. As they were taken out of the kombi the members of the military pressed them down to the ground and injected them with ...more | Full Transcript |
| 11:12 | For Mabel Makolane, mother of Abraham Makolane none of the young men deserved their deaths and for her and the other parents she spoke for neither do these men deserve forgiveness or amnesty. // I don’t have reconciliation. As they’ve taken them from my place to the place where they’ve killed them I want them to go and fetch them where they’ve left them to bring them home so that we’ll be able to bury them peacefully. They’ve killed our children, so they want us to forgive them. | Full Transcript |
| 11:52 | We showed last week that evil perpetrated by the security police was slowly being uncovered there have been no confessions from the Defence Force side. Well, the police are now fingering the Defence Force because in the mid 1980s all the clandestine units of the state started working together to eliminate those who oppose the National Party state. On the police side it was the security police and Vlakplaas, on the military side it was special forces, Military Intelligence, the Directorate Covert Collection and that sinister band with the cynical name, the Civil Cooperation Bureau the CCB. This is the only image of the shady CCB commander, Joe Verster ever seen in public. We heard this week that he supplied the bomb that killed homeland leader, Piet Ntuli. And special forces were named as the killers of Fabian and Florence Ribeiro. | Full Transcript and References |
