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Special Report Transcript Episode 57, Section 2, Time 02:18

‘Face to Face: The Torturer Confronted, Report by Gail Reagon.’ // These are some of the survivors of security branch policeman Jeffrey Benzien’s exceptional interrogation style and this is the young man who did not survive. Ashley Kriel was killed by Benzien in July 1987. He was the first casualty of the eighties’ MK crop on the Cape Flats.

Notes: On ferry to Robben Island; Photo: Ashley Kriel, Kriel’s corpse, Kriel’s funeral

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Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims Glossary
109 Forced postures or body positions were also used as a form of torture, sometimes involving the participation of the victim, thus inflicting psychological as well as physical stress. Examples included forcing the detainee to stand on a piece of foolscap piece of paper for hours, sometimes ...
Applications for amnesty 196 While the Commission received thousands of statements alleging torture, few amnesty applications were received specifically for torture. Amnesty applicant Andries Johannes van Heerden [AM3763/96] was a member of the terrorist detection unit at John Vorster Square ...
Mxolisi Penwell ‘Mubhi’ Khumalo 367 According to the records of the Centre for Adult Education, two armed policemen arrested Mr Mxolisi Penwell ‘Mubhi’ Khumalo in Sobantu on 30 July 1988 at about 19h30. According to this version, a hand grenade detonated, killing Khumalo and, according ...
 
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