Special Report Transcript Episode 67, Section 3, Time 19:26

The ANC’s Women’s League nominee for deputy president of the ANC, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, appeared before the Truth Commission on Friday. It was a closed session because the Commission merely wanted information about the activities of her Mandela United Football Club, believed to have been responsible for abductions, murders, assaults and disappearances in 1988 and 1989. The Truth Commission has agreed to Madikizela-Mandela’s request to have a public hearing on 24 November. Some of the Football Club’s victims are dead or have disappeared, but one who survived is Thabiso Mono, friend of Stompie Seipei, who was stabbed to death by Football Club members. In the late 1980s Mono was a youth activist in Potchefstroom. The town got a bit hot for him and he fled to Soweto where he was taken to Methodist minister Paul Verryn and ended up staying in the Orlando West Mission House. The night of 28 December, 1988 became a night of terror for Thabiso Mono and three of his friends staying at the Mission House.

Notes: Max du Preez