Special Report Transcript Episode 18, Section 7, Time 37:56

In 1991 two Fidelity Guard employees Hennie Gerber and Johan van Eyck, both ex-security policemen, tortured and killed a fellow Fidelity guard, Samuel Kganakga. During their murder trial there was no mention of a political motive. Gerber and Van Eyck were sentenced to 20 and 15 years in jail respectively. In July this year the two men applied for amnesty. They claimed that their motive for the abduction and murder was political after all. According to Gerber, unnamed intelligence sources had informed him that Kganakga was a PAC plant who was helping the movement steal money for its military purposes. Gerber and Van Eyck said they were sorry for the deed. But for the Amnesty Committee remorse was not enough. This week it refused them amnesty on the grounds that the act was not associated with the political objective, nor were they acting on the orders of a political grouping. What is more, the objective was self-serving because they wanted to prevent the deceased from laying a charge against them.

Notes: TRC hearing; Photos: Scene of crime, Kganakga’s body