Special Report Transcript Episode 22, Section 2, Time 05:40

The court however found that these people were on the scene and associated themselves with the killing so strongly that they too were guilty of murder. It is this that the accused find hard to understand. They were simply not killers, they say. Evalina de Bruin said she did not understand that the judge had sentenced them to death. // I saw the people cry. I saw my children and my family crying. But I did not know what the judge was saying. See, this was the saddest thing. My husband didn’t tell me. I asked him there next to me. We were sitting next to each other. I asked him why they were crying. He just shook his head at me. // The court case did not only touch us and our families. Many people, our loved ones, our friends across the country were hurt, because they could not believe that twenty six people could kill one person. And the majority of us in the case were not criminals. // I was just shocked at how I got the death sentence for something I did not do. I was shocked but not afraid. // I still felt brave as a comrade because that is also one of the things that I expected in my life when I joined the struggle. Firstly jail, secondly death and freedom is last. But Judge Basson acted on a hearsay story and sentenced me to death for a hearsay story.

Notes: Evalina de Bruin; Xolile Yona; Songezile Mokgatle; Xolile Yona

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