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Transcripts for Section 2 of Episode 51
| Time | Summary | | | 01:25 | After we struggled with Richard Motasi and Captain Hechter had placed the pillow over his head and I shot him four times with an AK 47 rifle... | Full Transcript and References | | 01:39 | I found Richard sleeping in the lounge here on the floor. His head was right here, he was shot in the ear and pieces of his skull they were on the floor and some of his brain was on the floor. So I left Richard again, rushed to the bedroom, looking for Tshidiso. I found that Tshidiso’s bedroom was upside down. Everything was, the trunks, the big police trunks were quite open, all the documents were out. I look for Tshidiso; I thought maybe his corpse is underneath those things. I couldn’t find the child. When I turn around I hear the child saying ‘Gogo baba bulayile.’ That means they’ve killed them. I said who? He said the policemen. I said to him how do you know. He said ‘keba bone with kadi jerseys ne ba apere dijersey tse tswanang letsa papa waka.’ It means they were wearing the jerseys that look like my father’s. | Full Transcript | | 02:53 | It is ten years later. Tshidiso Motasi is a 14 year old standard six boy who likes girls and rugby. This week we had a glimpse of Tshidiso’s journey to forgiveness. | Full Transcript | | 03:04 | ‘Journey to Forgiveness, Report by Benedict Motau.’ // My name is Tshidiso. I stay in Jabulani. My surname is Motasi and I’m fourteen years old and I stay with my granny and my grandfather and my cousin. My hobbies are …. I like girls, I like to go to movies and sometimes I phone my friends and I watch TV. I play rugby … I want to be a writer, so that in future our kids know the history of South Africa; what happened in South Africa about our parents and others of my kind, - orphans – I would like to say sorry to them because I know what it’s like. It’s very painful. // Since my parents died in 1987, December, I don’t remember the date, it was terrible; I don’t like to think about that. // I feel like doing something, go maybe to a person’s house and maybe kill everybody in the house, because what they did to me … because they killed my parents. // I find school very interesting, because in Soweto we didn’t have so many activities as this school and it’s ...more | Full Transcript | | 06:09 | We took Tshidiso on a journey back to the house where his parents were executed. His father’s brother, Joseph Motasi was there to meet him. // It’s been six years I haven’t seen my house, my neighbours and I just saw my uncle last year. | Full Transcript | | 06:32 | I remember that my brother uttered a word to me that I will never forget in my life. I had visited him at the Garangua hospital. That’s where he told me and said ‘my own colleagues are going to kill me,’ so I then asked ‘what do you mean they are going to kill you? There is no way you as police can kill each other.’ He then said ‘they are going to kill me.’ According to me there is no forgiveness. I hear that we are supposed to forgive them and so forth. With me, there is no forgiveness that I can give those people. This child is now left alone. He is an orphan, he has no parents. We are still left with bleeding hearts, but we are expected to forgive. | Full Transcript | | 07:49 | I do believe in myself. I want to get truth, what happened in those days and in future, our children must know what happened in those days when our parents were still alive. All I remember is that in the morning the neighbours, I think the neighbours next door to me, came to the house and look me up. And then I saw my mother there, she was shot in the head and my father was shot in the head and I didn’t know that they died. I just said ‘father wake up, wake up.’ My next door neighbours took me into their house and I stayed there maybe for three hours. I was standing next to the killer of my father and I didn’t know that he was the killer of my father. When they told me I thought, I wanted maybe to take a glass and just break it and kill him, because it’s like a joke, when they said my father was jumping like a tiger and he laughed that guy, it was very painful to me because they make it like a joke. It’s something like, it was like somebody, when they got in the house they ...more | Full Transcript | | 09:20 | Paul van Vuuren, one of the five policemen implicated in Richard and Busisiwe Motasi’s murder offered to meet Thsidiso. // Hi Tshidiso, how are you? // I’m fine. // I’m glad to hear that. // This is Mandla, his cousin. // Hello Mandla, how are you? // Alright. // Listen let me tell you, all the people always say, we must say sorry, we must say sorry. Now, just to say I’m sorry is an empty word. Do you know what I mean? Can you really be sorry you know? It’s the first time in my life, no it’s the second, it’s the third time in my life that I meet you. I’m not the type of person that come and say I’m sorry, I don’t even know you, you know what I mean? If I look back at what happened, at apartheid and so on, then I’m sorry about what happened to your parents and to you because it was a waste of human life. I’m sorry for that. I know that you must hate me. I know if somebody killed my parents maybe I would have been much more hateful than you. I can’t really say ...more | Full Transcript | | 12:42 | Today it is my day. I just saw a person who killed my father and my mother. So, it means something to me. // What’s that meaning? // A person who killed my father came to me and said sorry. | Full Transcript |
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