Special Report Transcript Episode 26, Section 2, Time 08:38

Joe Mamasela infiltrated a group of young activists in Mamelodi. He informed me that they wanted to receive military training abroad. A meeting was arranged between myself and Col Charl Naude, Special Forces where we discussed this matter. I made this kombi available to Mamasela and he arranged to take these MK soldiers, or intended MK soldiers across the border at Nietverdiend to Botswana for training purposes. I met Mamasela in town. I told him to drive the Nietverdiend road. And then to turn down that particular dirt road close to Nietverdiend. But there was a further kombi at the scene before, of Charl Naude’s operatives whom I do not know. All of them were wearing balaclava caps and they were awaiting Mamasela at that point. When he stopped they took the persons out of this vehicle, they were under the influence of alcohol to a considerable extend at that time. As they were taken out of the kombi the members of the military pressed them down to the ground and injected them with something. They were then put back in the kombi and then we drove to an area in Bophuthatswana. This kombi with the trainee soldiers was pushed down an incline and then the kombi was filled with explosives and blown up. Were they to return as well trained terrorists then they could have struck anywhere in the Republic and I wouldn’t have known how to prevent them from doing so. // You know the danger or prospect of them returning was nil, so that hardly is an issue for debate. // Precisely. // They were being sent to their death. // That’s why I’m speechless in response. // This was preventative. We had to eliminate them to prevent that they would come back as trained terrorists.

Notes: Brigadier Jack Cronje (Amnesty applicant); Map highlighting Zambia, Zim and Botswana, Mogoditsane ANC Facility; Brian Currin laughs; Voice of Judge Mall; Brian Currin (Lawyer for victims’ families; Judge Mall; Currin; Cronje

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