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Special Report Transcript Episode 3, Section 3, Time 21:02

Parcel bombs have often been used by the security police in their war against the ANC, especially by their foreign division at Daisy commanded in the 1980s by former Steve Biko interrogator, Col Piet Goosen and superspy major Craig Williamson. Williamson has admitted that he was responsible for two parcel bombs that killed two women and a six year old child. Williamson has applied for amnesty at the Truth Commission. // The security police wanted to kill ANC activist, Marius Schoon. They sent a parcel bomb to his home in Angola. He wasn’t at home when the parcel arrived and his wife Jeanette opened it, it killed her and their daughter, Katryn. // Williamson also admits killing leading ANC theoretician, Ruth First. Wife of Communist Party leader and later cabinet minister, Joe Slovo. First was blown up in the Mozambican capital of Maputo in August 1982.

Notes: Tape player; Graig Williamson; Marius Schoon; Photo: Jeanette Schoon; Photos: Ruth First

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