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| 25:58 | They are called the Zimbabwe Five. They are the last members of the South African security forces detained outside the country. The Amnesty Committee may hear their case soon at a special hearing in Zimbabwe. Jacques Pauw takes up the story. | Full Transcript and References |
| 26:14 | Zimbabwe, since black majority rule in 1980, a target of South African death squads. For 10 years the apartheid state tried to destabilize its northern neighbour. | Full Transcript |
| 26:28 | Aftermaths of bomb explosions: ; May 1986, ANC Offices, Harare; May 1987, Harare; October 1987 Car Bomb, Harare | Full Transcript |
| 26:46 | But the Zimbabwean authorities hit back. In January 1988 four South African Defence Force agents were arrested in Harare and charged with murder and sabotage. They were sentenced to altogether 250 years imprisonment. To this very day they are incarcerated here, the Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison. | Full Transcript |
| 27:12 | Barry Bawden Sabotage 40 Years // Michael Smith Sabotage and Murder 70 Years // Phillip Conjwayo Murder 70 Years // Kevin Woods Murder and Sabotage 70 Years | Full Transcript |
| 27:30 | The fifth agent was arrested during an abortive escape attempt. Sammy/Denis Beahan was arrested with an arsenal of South African made weapons and explosives as he tried to enter Zimbabwe. He was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. These men are the last remaining South African agents imprisoned anywhere in the world. The government of President Robert Mugabe has stubbornly refused to release them. | Full Transcript |
| 27:57 | They were part of Three Reconnaissance. I think it was called D40 in the earlier days, which is now being branded CCB. I don’t know who the … I believe Joe Verster was the boss, General Eddie Webb, then General Kat Liebenberg at one stage. | Full Transcript |
| 28:14 | The five men in prison, who are detained at Chikurubi Prison just now, as far as I’m concerned, are the worst traitors, and they deserve to be treated as such. They are Zimbabweans who have allowed themselves to be used by the South Africans for nothing else but for their own ends. | Full Transcript |
| 28:40 | The National Party government military, I would say they are a bunch of cowards, traitors if anything. They have left their people there; they have done nothing to help them. | Full Transcript |
| 28:48 | And certainly those men who were responsible for them have abandoned them and that is the former South African government and they owe these men something. | Full Transcript |
| 29:03 | Well, they’ve got rubber necks, that’s what it is. To me, the generals have taken their money and they’ve run. The fat cats. | Full Transcript |
| 29:12 | Guy Bawden, who now lives in Johannesburg was also a member of the cell and admits his involvement in trying to blow up anti-apartheid activist Jeremy Brickhill in Harare in October 1987. | Full Transcript and References |
| 29:26 | I was hit by a lot of shrapnel mainly in my back and in my legs. I was very badly burnt by the petrol, a lot of cars exploded and I lost my spleen, badly damaged my left leg; broke several ribs. I was in a terrible mess and I was very ill for at least a year after that. It took me 8 months to learn to walk again. | Full Transcript |
| 29:56 | Why did you blow Jeremy Brickhill up? // Well the reason there that I was given by Kit, is Jeremy Brickhill was taking limpet mines into South Africa and his wife being a Russian was supporting him, taking the equipment through the border. So we had to stop him in Harare. | Full Transcript |
| 30:15 | It’s very difficult to know how many deaths are on the hands of these people and that’s because of the very nature of the secret war. The conflict in Matabeleland cost between 5 and 10 000 lives and at least one of the people who is in Chikurubi now as a convicted prisoner was very directly involved in the secret operation that orchestrated that conflict between ZAPU and ZANU and created such suffering in our country in the early 1980s. So many many thousands of people have perished, many more thousands of people’s lives were destroyed, homes were lost; people’s futures were destroyed. | Full Transcript |
| 30:57 | They must confess and tell us the whole story, how they were recruited, when they were recruited, what else they did for which they were not charged. All those things have not been told. | Full Transcript |
| 31:10 | The men in Chikurubi have now decided to seek amnesty in South Africa and testify before the Truth Commission. The hearings will probably take place in Harare. | Full Transcript |
| 31:23 | Would you allow them to go and testify? // I’m sure that the government could arrange for those facilities and I’m sure government would be quite willing to have them testify. | Full Transcript |
| 31:36 | For them to simply sit and rot in prison is really not doing either them or society necessarily that much good. | Full Transcript |
| 31:45 | One of the prisoners, Barry Bawden, grew up on a cattle farm not from the Matopos Hills in southern Zimbabwe. The Bawden’s are cattle men and have worked this land for more than a century. | Full Transcript |
