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Transcripts for Section 4 of Episode 60
| Time | Summary | | | 22:42 | The amnesty applications of Blessing Ninela’s killers will only be heard late this year. This week the killers of ANC lawyer Griffiths Mxenge were granted amnesty by the Truth Commission. | Full Transcript and References | | 22:55 | Griffiths Mxenge was murdered by Dirk Coetzee’s hit squad in November 1981. In his amnesty application in November last year Coetzee claimed that he had not questioned the order to eliminate Mxenge because it had come from senior security branch officers. // They were trying to build up a case and just couldn’t get him in because he was sticking strictly according to the law and was a thorn in the flesh and we had to get rid of him, that’s correct. | Full Transcript | | 23:23 | On the evening of the 19th of November 1981 hit squad members David Tshikalanga, Almond Nofemela, Joe Mamasela and Brian Ngqulunga followed Mxenge home from work, took a short cut and waited for him to arrive. They pretended to have a problem with their car. When Mxenge offered to help them they accepted. // He switched his car off and, Joe then entered into the car, I got to the car at the back, David followed us. // I was just following them; they reached an open ground, which looked like a stadium. // … Then David stabbed him, David Tshikalanga, he’s the first one who stabbed him and then from there with the exception of Brian – Brian just stood there with his gun – that’s when we started stabbing him until he died. | Full Transcript | | 24:29 | To make the assassination look like a robbery Mxenge’s car was driven to the Swazi border and set alight along with his personal belongings. // I don’t expect the Mxenge family to forgive me because I don’t know how I ever in my life would be able to forgive a man like Dirk Coetzee. | Full Transcript | | 24:50 | Coetzee, Nofemela and Tshikalanga were convicted of the murder of Griffiths Mxenge in the Durban High Court last month. This week they were granted amnesty. The amnesty finding means they will no longer be liable for prosecution in respect of Mxenge’s murder. The Committee says that while there is some doubt about the identity of those who ordered Coetzee to kill Mxenge they believe that he’d ‘acted on the advice of one or more senior security branch members.’ They were also satisfied that ‘none of the applicants knew Mxenge or had any reason to bring about his death before they were ordered to do so.’ The outcome of other crimes for which the three want amnesty will be decided later. | Full Transcript | | 25:36 | In 1993 right wingers Leon Froneman and Pieter Harmse, both members of the Boere Weerstands Beweging placed a bomb in an Indian owned shopping complex at Bronkhorstspruit in Gauteng. | Full Transcript and References | | 25:49 | One policeman was killed and another injured today when a powerful bomb rocked a shopping complex in the Transvaal town of Bronkhorstspruit. // It was not my intention to go and kill someone and it touched me deeply, especially when I realized that I had robbed a wife of her husband and children of their father. | Full Transcript | | 26:10 | Froneman and Harmse have both been granted amnesty. The Committee found that ‘by attacking the shopping complex they wanted to show the government and others that the BWB was intent on taking the country back. By force if necessary.’ | Full Transcript | | 26:28 | In one of the swiftest findings of the Amnesty Committee convicted IFP murderer Msizi Jethro Hlophe, who appeared in front of the Committee on Monday, was granted amnesty before the week was out. The amnesty judgement stated that Hlophe’s offences against members of the UDF ‘were committed against a background of political conflict and violence.’ | Full Transcript and References |
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