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Special Report Transcript Episode 50, Section 4, Time 13:10

I haven’t even reached 12 yet. I wasn’t even in standard five yet. That’s when I became wanted by these people who call themselves the justice system, but we all know that they were the injustice system. In 1987 nearly the whole organisation I represent here today was arrested. I was still on the run, they couldn’t find me. And then what happened was some Boers told people in my organisation they’re not really looking for me, because I was the informer. // And then comrades dealt out their own rough justice. // The first thing that happened, my own brothers hit me over the head with a very heavy object. I still don’t know what it was. I fell down to the ground, my clothes were ripped off, petrol was thrown over me and I was set alight by my own brothers who I believed in. // Moegamat was saved by a priest, but a few months later at 14 he was detained under section 29. // After 10 days in Macassar police cells I tried to commit suicide by hanging myself with my tracksuit pants.

Notes: TRC testimony: Moegamat Williams; Reporter; Moegamat Williams; Reporter; Moegamat Williams

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Hearing Transcripts TRC Victims Glossary
A BMW member who was arrested on 6 January 1988 and was assaulted and tort u red at the Brackenfell, Bishop Lavis and Macassar police stations in Cape Town by named members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit. Mr Williams was acquitted of the charges against him. He was later severely ...
A BMW member who was arrested on 6 January 1988 and was assaulted and tort u red at the Brackenfell, Bishop Lavis and Macassar police stations in Cape Town by named members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit. Mr Williams was acquitted of the charges against him. He was later severely ...
 
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