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Special Report Transcript Episode 43, Section 4, Time 13:40

In the morning you would wake up and see a soldier in front of your house with a gun. The whole township was surrounded by the soldiers. This made people to be angry. // We are injured; we have wounds inside because of what they have done to us as black people. They were killing us. // Those who were in government at that time killed my wife. Even today when my wife’s name is mentioned I feel pain in my heart.

Notes: TRC testimony: Ntsikelelo Mentoor. Footage: conflict with police; Jacob Nombiba (Victim’s father); Johnny Tsili (Victim’s husband)

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Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims
A SAYCO member who was tortured in detention by named members of the Security Branch in Port Elizabeth, on 18 August 1985 during the state of emergency. See police brutality.
Was shot dead by members of the SAP in Grahamstown, Cape, on 19 July 1980 when police opened fire on mourners returning from a funeral.
Was shot dead when members of the SAP fired on youths demonstrating after a mass funeral in Grahamstown, Cape, on 26 July 1980.
 
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