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Transcripts for Section 5 of Episode 28
| Time | Summary | | | 21:36 | Monstrous times, monstrous deeds. State violence brought violence in reaction. The ANC’s explanation that they fought a just war against apartheid is probably acceptable to most South Africans. But sometimes one wonders if the guerrillas remembered that the people they killed were more than enemy statistics, that they had names and mothers and fathers. | Full Transcript | | 22:01 | At precisely 12:30 on the 20th of May 1987 a limpet mine exploded outside the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court. A group of police officers on duty in the vicinity responded immediately. They rushed to the aid of passersby, unaware of the bomber, MK operative Joseph Kwetle who was stationed nearby. | Full Transcript and References | | 22:24 | I saw a police vehicle parked next to the bomb laden vehicle. When I saw them standing there I said that was what I wanted. They were the absolute target. I prayed and I even shed some tears. Little did they know that something terrible was going to happen. | Full Transcript | | 23:00 | When the second bomb went off four policemen died and 16 civilians were badly injured. | Full Transcript | | 23:06 | The reason why I did this bomb, I as a black man in South Africa never had a vote. Our forefathers had tried all possible avenues of trying to bring the past nationalist regime to their senses. But they refused. So the only language the regime understood, I thought, was violence. So we had to meet violence with violence. | Full Transcript | | 23:33 | One of the dead was policeman Andre Duvenhage. This week his parents told their side of the story to the Truth Commission in Kagiso. // I felt I must do something for him. The least I can do for him is to expose his murderer in this way because people take no notice of a video. People must know who the murderer is and I hope the TRC can do something about this, about somebody who can do this, kill innocent people in this way and not care and not care about the consequences and even revel in it. He was a very quiet child. Didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, contained, very intelligent. The apple of his mother’s eye. They loved to chat. He left home two months before. He’d only been married two months, two months and twenty days. | Full Transcript | | 24:57 | The police, we regarded them as enemies because they were enforcing the apartheid laws upon us. A black man’s life to them was worthless. So if I had at least killed close to 50 of them I think I would have died a happy man. | Full Transcript | | 25:18 | I believe a person who killed so cold-bloodedly, I believe something must be done about him because it’s innocent people, innocent people in the street. He didn’t care who they were. | Full Transcript | | 25:34 | I want him to understand that I’m not the so-called monster they may have painted me to be. // It will never go away; one learns to live with it. Yes, you learn to live with it. But the hurt will not go away, it can’t go away. // When I think about that bomb and I think about the families of the dead policemen I’m filled with sadness and if I can have a chance of talking to them and telling them what drove me to doing that, perhaps they’ll understand. I know maybe some of them will hate me, but I want them to understand that, my intention, or ... I am not a killer. | Full Transcript |
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