Special Report Transcript Episode 2, Section 11, Time 37:39

Zenzile May was a student in Port Elizabeth, as a member of COSAS, the Congress of South African students, he was a matter of course beaten up and detained. But something else happened that changed his life completely. It began in Queenstown in 1979. // At one stage they took me from my cell in the afternoon, they made me to put on a police camouflage and then they put a balaclava over my face and then they drove me out of the police station into an isolated spot. I was handcuffed and I had leg irons on. They repeated the same questions and then they said that they were going to shoot me if I don’t tell them that and they would tell the public that I ran away from the police station a long time ago and I’ve come back being a well-trained ANC terrorist. Because there was nobody who knew that I was being held, so they would shoot me and leave me there. But I said to them, I’ve got nothing to tell them and then they asked if I could be their informer and then I would be paid for that. But I said to them, I was not looking for employment, I was a student, so I cannot do that kind of thing.

Notes: TRC testimony: Zenzile May

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