Special Report Transcript Episode 21, Section 3, Time 11:30

‘Sowat ‘n half miljoen rand se skade is vanoggend vroeg op Klerksdorp aangerig toe ‘n kragtige ontploffing die hoofgebou van …’ [Early this morning, a powerful explosion … the main building of …in Klerksdorp, causing damages of approximately half a million rand.] // I remember the 15th of December I was standing there with great thankfulness and happiness in our hearts and then the night of the 16th we had a phone call twenty past one to come out there because the school was bombed. When the light came we went out there and realized that we’ve lost literally everything. There was just dirt and rubble and a mess, and corrugated iron all over and it looked like a war zone. Afterwards the parents come to you and they looked me straight in the face and they said, Helena, are you also going to turn your back on us now? And I said God forbid that I do that. I don’t know how we are going to make it, we’ve got nothing left, we are totally, literally bankrupt. We had to move to the show grounds where they asked us a tremendous amount of money to be there, under harsh circumstances. Nobody cared and everybody hoped that we would not survive it.

Notes: SABC News bulletin, 16 December 1991; Helena de Kock (TRC testimony); Photos: Aftermath of bombing; Show grounds

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