Special Report Transcript Episode 75, Section 5, Time 53:21

I think it’s important to place on record the reason we had these section 29 inquiries is because that was the first part of the investigation process into allegations made about the involvement of Mrs. Mandela and members of the football club. These have been in statements made by victims who have come forward to complain about human rights violations. Mrs. Mandela herself at all times while she was subpoenaed called for a public inquiry and the Commission was quite pleased to accede to that request, because we also saw it as an opportunity to allow people to come forward to testify who’ve never actually testified in the trials that have taken place. And so one wanted to get a perspective from all the people who have knowledge of the activities of the football club. I want to reassure people, we’re not tied into any of the political processes, we haven’t been influenced by any of the parties, but we think that it’s very important for us to have this hearing because it is about gross human rights violations, about people who are on the other side of the struggle, not people who have been involved in state unlawful activity.

Notes: Yasmin Sooka (Truth Commissioner)

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