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Special Report Transcript Episode 18, Section 4, Time 21:20

Many of the victims at the Nelspruit hearings this week were teenagers at a time when education was not necessarily academic. And it was difficult to distinguish between a playground and a war zone. In the mid-eighties they embraced the struggle for liberation determinedly regardless of the cost. Hundreds of school children gathered at the Kabukweni magistrate’s court on 11 March 1986. They were there to support fellow students who were charged with public violence. Although the court building is no longer there Elizabeth Mdluli and Amos Maseko remember the day it drew students and police together in conflict.

Notes: Report by Nantie Steyn; Van Riebeeck Park Sports Stadium.; Photographs: Burnt school buildings

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Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims
An ANC supporter who was shot and blinded in his right eye when police opened fire on people at a mass funeral in Likazi, KaNgwane on 23 March 1986.
Was shot and injured by members of the SAP outside the magistrate`s court in Kabokweni, KaNgwane, in 1986, during the hearing of a case involving student leaders.
 
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