Special Report Transcript Episode 22, Section 3, Time 20:39

Reverend Simon Farisani had some explanation for the support the Venda community gave to the liberation armies. // Many of them did operate in this area. It was hospitable, people accommodated them. There were few instances where they were reported to the security forces. But generally people harbored them, people covered them, people fed them, people looked after them, because they shared the same goal. The only dividing thing was the fear, the harsh consequences that came to one if one was found to be involved in that kind of activity. As far as I know no pastor was directly involved in that. But the fact that we knew about movement of freedom fighters, occasionally they got help from the clergy in this area, that made us very very unpopular with the regime of the day. More so because they thought our gospel, the kind of message we preached in the churches, sort of fertilized this area for the activities of the liberation struggle. But our defence as a church, as Christians, were that we could not throw pearls before swine, we could not take the information we had about freedom fighters and give it to the security police, because we knew they would use that information to destroy our goal of freedom, to destroy the freedom fighters. And the price was very high for doing that.

Notes: Simon Farisani

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