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... on the apartheid government’s side on exactly the same level as perpetrators of gross human rights on the liberation movement’s side. Dr Mandela, your feelings. // Well, I think that if a country has decided that we’re going to go through a truth commission in an era where we have ...

I explained that I come from Natal where there is violence. I don’t have a place to stay. I don’t have anybody. He handed me to a higher authority. So that’s where I meet Mrs. Mandela. It was the first time I saw her.

... At that time the media quoted him as saying the allegations were so serious that they demanded immediate clarification in the interest of Mrs. Mandela and the police. The allegations, if true, would constitute a serious blot on the police and a grave infringement of Mrs. Mandela’s personal ...

Alright, we only have five minutes left and I want to address the whole concept of reconciliation now. Maki Mandela, let’s look at what has happened in the Truth Commission in terms of reconciliation and what lies ahead. Your views. Where are we now in terms of reconciliation? Are we stuck in a ...

Two people came to the house. Mr Mandela told me to show them the house of Dr Asvat. We went to Rockville and I showed them the house.

Despite her fears she talked about it for the first time since Winnie Mandela’s trial. // Is that your writing on the top there? // That’s my handwriting. // And is that Dr Asvat’s writing? // This is his writing. // That date there, is that the date you would have stamped? // Yes. What I was ...

‘Day Four Thursday 27 November 1997’ // Dr Nthato Motlana who had been a friend and family doctor of the Mandela’s since the fifties was one of the first people asked to intervene in the growing crisis. When he went to see Madikizela-Mandela for the first time, Stompie Seipei was already ...

Denzil Potgieter started his career in Cape Town, working with Dullah Omar, our present Minister of Justice. In 1995 he was asked by President Mandela to coordinate the process of appointing a Truth Commission.

The atmosphere was charged. What was going to happen next? Madikizela-Mandela consulted with her lawyer, but clearly she had no choice, she had to offer some form of apology. But as people asked afterwards, how much does an apology mean when you have denied so vehemently before that you had done ...

Fred Dempsey, Henk Hesslinga and HT Moodley are the three policemen who investigated the Asvat murder. They were asked why they had never questioned Madikizela-Mandela over the killing. In spite of Mbatha and Dlamini’s statements implicating her.

When I came into the garage, they were beating Lolo Sono. Mrs Mandela, Jerry Richardson and others. They were whipping Sono. After they beat Sono he was wounded. Then they put him in a car and drove to his house in Meadowlands.

Under cross examination Madikizela-Mandela denied she had ever accused Verryn of sexually molesting the boys, yet she clearly charged Verryn with sodomising the youngsters in an American TV documentary long after they had stated clearly that the allegations were false.

… And you don’t know how your greatness would be enhanced if you were to say sorry, things went wrong. // I am saying it is true, things went horribly wrong.

Winnie’s football club was now falling into disrepute, nevertheless she continued recruiting. When one youth, Sibusiso Chili, refused to join a fight broke out and a football club member Maxwell Modondo was killed. Winnie demanded revenge. Katiza Cebekhulu heard her give the order.

The request that I want to make is that in all that I have done I did it because I was tempted by a very clever person who was older than me. And after such a long time that the Asvat family has been troubled, wanting to know as to the circumstances surrounding their relative, their father or their ...

Lolo’s friend and neighbour, Sibuniso Tshabalala was abducted only hours later. // I asked Sibuniso myself, ‘what do you know about Winnie?’ But Sibuniso was one boy who was quiet and he said to me, ‘mom, I don’t know that much.’ And l asked him, ‘when they come here, what are you ...

When I first got involved it was to say to Mrs. Mandela there have been these stories about abuse, sodomising of the children; please let’s stop talk about that. The next time was to say to Mrs. Mandela there are children about whom there are stories that they are being held against their will. ...

It did surprise me. He is the president of the country. He knows the case since he’s in power now he uses power to stop the police giving me freedom. So I’m begging President Mandela allow me to return back home.

We have heard here the evidence of the killers, Dlamini and Mbatha who on one version would say that they committed the murder on Dr Asvat at your instructions. Had you met Mbatha before? // I actually saw them for the first time here. // Had you met Dlamini before? // I had never met any of them.

This coming week the news will be dominated by the Mandela United Football Club hearings and the continuation of the amnesty application of the two right wingers who killed Communist Party leader Chris Hani. Next week’s Special Report will indeed be one not to miss. Until then, goodbye.