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| 01:33 | The Commission earlier said, he referred to the security branch as the elite of the police. I call them cowards, Mr. Commissioner. I call them the scum of the police. They are responsible not only for what they’ve done to me and my family, they are responsible for that that’s happened to the whole community. | Full Transcript and References |
| 02:28 | Words often uttered by anti-apartheid activists who fell victim to the security police, but this man is no ordinary victim. | Full Transcript |
| 02:35 | I was involved in paramilitary groups and the political objectives we wished to achieve I don’t think at this stage I want to elaborate on that. I would at a later stage elaborate more on that in terms of indemnity or an amnesty application. | Full Transcript |
| 03:12 | If he is reluctant, perhaps we should show you some of the highlights of this man’s career, a man affectionately called ‘my little fanatic’ by AWB leader, Eugene Terreblanche. | Full Transcript |
| 03:23 | Police in South West Africa Namibia have launched an intensive search for the killers of a security guard at the UNTAG regional office at Outjo. People in the region have been asked to give any possible assistance in identifying the attackers. A substantial award has been offered for information which could lead to the arrest of three suspects who attacked the office earlier this week. There have been no arrests by this evening. Our Windhoek news staff reports that the attack on the drill hall, which took place three minutes before the regional office was raked by automatic rifle fire appears to have been a diversionary tactic. After the gunfire two phosphorous grenades were thrown through the shattered windows, killing the security guard mister Michael Haoseb. Our Windhoek correspondent reports that the phosphorous grenades and the calibre ammunition used was standard issue in the SADF. | Full Transcript |
| 04:12 | Meanwhile the search for three escapees and two accomplices who shot and wounded a policeman during a daring escape near Otjiwarongo, Namibia has been extended to the South African Namibian border. The wounded policeman, Constable Ricardo van Wyk may have to be transferred to a hospital in Cape Town. [Inaudible] report that UNTAG spokesmen have severely criticized the South West African police for not taking enough care in transferring the three men who are considered to be dangerous. // ‘The escape seems to have been planned well in advance and executed with military precision. Road blocks were mounted on all the main routes in South West Africa Namibia today and at the ports of entry and exit. But at least one citing was reported from as far away as Virginia in the Orange Free State. The three men: Horst Klenz who is a 52 year old West German citizen and considered to be the most dangerous of the group, 23 year old Leonard Veenendal who has said earlier to have had connections ...more | Full Transcript |
| 05:44 | Die polisie in Namibie ondersoek a tweede aanklag van moord wat verband hou met die bomaanval in Augustus op Untag kantore op Outjo en die daaropvolgende ontsnapping van drie gevangenis. Die 21 jarige Konstabel Ricardo van Wyk is gister aan beserings dood wat hy opgedoen het toe die drie gevangenis verlede maand naby Otjiwarongo uit aanhouding ontsnap het. ‘n Veiligheidswag het in die bomaanval omgekom. [The Namibian police are investigating a second charge of murder linked to the August bomb attack on UNTAG offices in Outjo and the consequent escape of three prisoners. 21 year old Constable Ricardo van Wyk died yesterday of injuries sustained during the prisoners escape near Otjiwarongo a month ago. A security guard was killed in the bomb attack.] | Full Transcript |
| 06:05 | Johannesburg magistrate has ruled that two members of the Orde Boerevolk, Leonard Veenendal and Darryl Stopforth can be extradited to Namibia. A decision now rests with the Minister of Justice, Mr. Kobie Coetzee, on whether the two should be handed over to Namibia to stand trial. | Full Transcript and References |
| 06:21 | Earlier today newly formed organisation, the Northern Natal Boer Commando, declared Northern Natal a volkstaat. In a declaration they stated their right to retain the land the Boer community obtained through negotiations with the Zulu nation a century ago. Leader of the Northern Natal Boer Commando and also leader of the Orde Boerevolk is Leonard Veenendal. He was released from prison after a lengthy hunger strike with right winger Piet Roedolf. | Full Transcript and References |
| 06:46 | Well we will just take what is ours, we’ll occupy what is ours and we will defend what is ours. Any party, organisation or nation that wants to deprive us of that right will be seen as the aggressor and we will answer that aggression with the necessary steps. | Full Transcript |
| 07:05 | Veenendal is a staunch supporter of the Inkatha Freedom Party. At this rally in April 1994 his Natal Boer Commando pledged their loyalty and protection to the Zulu king. Veenendal has played a key role in the military training of IFP militants. But while Veenendal escaped justice in Namibia he found himself behind South African bars for two years after a range of right wing bomb attacks in and around Johannesburg in 1990. He says he was severely tortured. | Full Transcript |
| 07:37 | They put a gas mask over my face which was painted black and then they threw a bucket of water over me. I then experienced being shocked. Then the current would come through my leg, then through my armpit, then through my gentiles, sometimes they would come all three together. While this was going on he shouted why don’t I call my God to release me from the chair and that I would see that they, the security branch, they are God. That not Mandela, that not Treurnicht, Terreblanche or De Klerk ran this country, but that they ran the country. The major put his foot on my head and he said he can squash me like a bug. He called them all around me, they stood in a circle around me and they all proceeded to urinate over me, because they said I’m a dog; that is what you do to a dog. | Full Transcript |
| 09:13 | I’m looking forward to Mr. Veenendal’s amnesty application hearing and perhaps our departments of justice and foreign affairs owe the public an explanation why he has not been sent back to Namibia to stand trial. | Full Transcript |
