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Special Report Transcript Episode 33, Section 2, Time 04:06

Sizwe Kondile, a prominent student activist and ANC member, was arrested entering South Africa from Lesotho on 26 June 1981. In an attempt to escape he dived through a window, his hands were cuffed behind his back and he landed on his head. The brain injury he suffered could not be explained away. Colonel Nick van Rensburg called in the expertise of the then Vlakplaas commander, Dirk Coetzee.

Notes: Charity Kondile (East London hearings, April 1996)

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