Special Report Transcript Episode 13, Section 1, Time 00:11

South Africa’s previous government pursued the liberal policy of destabilizing our neighbouring states for years. Strictly speaking this does not fall inside the Truth Commission’s mandate, but there is the case of five agents of the former South African Army’s Civil Cooperation Bureau or CCB who were sent to altogether 250 years in jail for sabotage and murder. For eight years these men have been refusing to talk. They are now saying they want to apply to the Truth Commission for amnesty. We have a full report on the Zimbabwe Five who have had enough of jail. The Truth Commission has heard several allegations the last three months of medical doctors who colluded with the security police torturers. We ask should there be a separate Truth Commission for doctors? We’re also visiting the Natal Midlands, heart of South Africa’s many civil wars. We investigate the assassination of senior ANC member Reggie Hadebe and the Trust Feed massacre. But first we go to East London. 12 ANC members of Mdantsane this week asked the Truth Commission’s Amnesty Committee to grant them amnesty. The Bisho Supreme Court sent them to jail for burning to death four gang members in 1987.

Notes: Max du Preez

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