Special Report Transcript Episode 17, Section 2, Time 06:22

Joseph Jacobs Berry was one of the ambulance drivers called to Maduna road on the day of the massacre. // And because of the code of the caller I got, I knew that this was an extreme emergency and not only that it was an extreme emergency but that it was a shooting case. So all speed has to be gathered to get to that scene. Unfortunately, when we got to the entrance of Hillwag we were blocked by the SAP. So much so and for so long that by the time that we did gain entrance ambulances of Kirkwood as well as Port Elizabeth arrived on that scene. I had to go and wash my hands and the only ideal place was the sluice room. So when I entered the sluice room I saw these bodies lying there and one of them was still breathing. So I knelt down to see whether I couldn’t help. And I thought hell, let me go and call the doctor, but when I turned around Doctor Viljoen was standing in the door. And I said, Doc, but this person is still alive, and breathing. And he said ‘Ag hy gaan maar doodgaan.’ [Ag he’s going to die anyway].

Notes: Joseph Jacobs Berry interviewed

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