Special Report Transcript Episode 22, Section 3, Time 18:42

Vendaland was ideal guerrilla territory, close to the border countries friendly to the ANC and PAC. Mountainous and clustered with orchards of bananas and avocadoes. But it was the support of Vendaland’s people that made the difference for liberation armies. Willie Mudau, a former black consciousness and church activist, was one such person. // This is the room where those guys used to sleep. At this stage, it’s now demolished because we now have a new structure. My mother here used to cook for those guys for a period of 2 weeks or so and it was not only once. When things were bad we used to come and hide here and when other guys were being hunted down by the security police, we’d come and accommodate them here and when other guys come from outside - then, according to the terminology of the system, terrorists, in our language freedom fighters – when they come in from their mission, we’d hide them for a day or two or for whatever period was needed.

Notes: Vendaland; William Mudau (Senior Magistrate)

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