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Transcripts for Section 1 of Episode 22
| Time | Summary | | | 00:27 | The Truth Commission is getting tough at last and for a change this programme’s timing was perfect, because within a day of our asking some tough questions of the Truth Commission in last week’s programme we saw a new spirit of determination from the Truth Commission. // This velvet glove does in fact have a fist of steel. // Later in the programme we have a frank discussion with Truth Commission Deputy Chairman Alex Boraine on the Commission’s new approach. We also introduce you to cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro and some of his work on the Truth Commission. But let’s start with Upington. First there were the Sharpeville six, then the Delmas Treason Trialists and then the Upington 26. All controversial cases in which entire groups of people were sentenced to death for murder, not because they actually killed someone but because they were on the scene, because they had a so-called common purpose with the killers. In 1985 26 people were charged with the gruesome murder of an ...more | Full Transcript |
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