Special Report Transcript Episode 25, Section 4, Time 29:58

Under the heading ‘special projects’ support for anti-Marxist liberation movements, Mortimer talked about SADF support for UNITA in Angola, RENAMO in Mozambique and the Lesotho Liberation Army. And then he dropped in this insignificant little paragraph. // Inkatha. In 1985 chief minister Buthelezi requested paramilitary support from the RSA government. The RSA government decided on the 20th of December 1985 to grant him the support and tasked the SADF to render the support. This project was known as Operation Marion. // Operation Marion? Should I believe that in all these conflicts in the black areas as we blacks and other, what do you call, progressive, what do you call, people in the organisation have been saying that. In these conflicts we have had the hand of a third force. And I know that the government all along has been denying that. I know that you’ve made presentations during the past as if the government all starting from the prime minister and president, they were saying that there was no third force. But now it comes out clear here, if you do this analysis of the quotation that indeed the third force was involved. You can make a comment. Was there any third force in the black on black violence in this country? // To the best of my knowledge, no.

Notes: SADF on special projects; Mortimer; Dr Khoza Mgojo (Truth Commission); Mortimer