Special Report Transcript Episode 19, Section 3, Time 09:25

Let’s move our attention to the Eastern Cape now where the Truth Commission had a special hearing. It was September 1992. Negotiations between the ruling National Party and the ANC were fully underway. Two homelands, Transkei and Venda, sided with the ANC, but Ciskei and Bophuthatswana were digging in their heels. In protest against Ciskei leader, Brigadier Oupa Gqozo’s continued dictatorship, the ANC planned to march on Bisho on the 7th of September. They wanted to occupy Bisho for a day. Gqozo was determined to stop them. Jann Turner tries to separate fact from fiction.

Notes: Max du Preez