Special Report Transcript Episode 19, Section 3, Time 23:48

But I, as I’ve explained, must really strongly check from deep in my heart that this issue was a set up ambush because that means that we, not only the soldiers sitting here, all soldiers who were from your community, who are related to you, who are part of this region are just happy killers who waited for the kill to destroy. And that is wrong, that is wrong. From my point of view and for the soldiers of the Ciskei Defence Force I can speak. I say we are sorry. I say the burden of the Bisho massacre will be on our soldiers for the rest of our lives. We cannot wish it away. It happened. But please, I ask specifically the victims, not to forget, I cannot ask this, but to forgive us. To get the soldiers back into the community, to accept them fully, to try to understand also under the pressure they were then. This is all I can do. I’m sorry. That is my plea to you, through the Commission. And as I say, I request the Commission I think on the behalf of the soldiers of the Ciskei Defence Force, that Brigadier Gqozo will stand here and answer for what he has ordered on the 7th of September.

Notes: Horst Schobersberger (Former Chief of staff, CDF)