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Special Report Transcript Episode 5, Section 4, Time 17:08

Repression in the Eastern Cape had always been more severe than elsewhere. The Commission was confronted with more harrowing accounts of torture this week. Sicelo Apleni was a Port Elizabeth UDF activist, he was detained in 1985. // I was beaten up. The first person to assault me was Mister X. He took my genitals, they opened a drawer. [Inaudible] was on the other side of the desk. He took my genitals and Mister X shut the drawer. That ‘s how I haven’t been taken to the [inaudible] yet. Then all my genitals were in this drawer and the drawer was shut close, he squeezed and squeezed my genitals. // Epsom Banda was a Uitenhage civics leader. He was also detained in 1985. // Sometimes, yes I do get furious about what happened to me. Sometimes I want to scream. Now, usually what happens after that, I can’t even sleep, until 1 am sometimes I can’t sleep. It’s still haunting me in my head. I don’t know how I can help this. // Dennis Neer, a Port Elizabeth trade unionist was also a victim of the wild days of the states of emergency. // Something was going to happen, because somebody came to the front, held me, at my shoulders and then tried to kick my private parts, you know. Then I would bend, then somebody would hit me on my lower back with something like a pick handle, something like that. Then this would continue, front and back. If I bend to the back then this guy hits me, if I bend to the front when he hits me then this one kicks me.

Notes: Max du Preez; TRC testimony: Sicelo Apleni; TRC testimony: Gunqgile Epsom Banda; TRC testimony: Dennis Neer

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Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims Glossary
A UDF supporter who was shot in the hand during conflict between AZAPO and UDF supporters in Zwide, Port Elizabeth, on 12 May 1985.
A UDF leader who was detained on 27 June 1986 by members of the Security Police and held without trial for ten months at St Alban ’s prison, Port Elizabeth. While in detention, he was kept in solitary confinement. On his release in 1987 he was attacked by AmaAfrika supporters in KwaNobuhle, ...
An ANC supporter and trade union leader who was detained and severely tortured by the helicopter method, beating and attempted suffocation by named members of the Security Police at Louis le Grange Square police station, Port Elizabeth, in August 1985 during the partial state of emergency. See ...
 
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