Special Report Transcript Episode 3, Section 3, Time 17:35

My daughter in law came rushing in and just said ‘Bheki. ’ I just said, ‘what’s wrong with Bheki?’ My daughter in law just said, ‘Mama, Bheki, at the garage.’ I was surprised, what is this garage story about, I couldn’t hear anything, I was feeling very ill. When I came out, they held me. They said, ‘please don’t go in there.’ I just skipped through their legs and went in. I found Bheki, he was in pieces, he was all over. Pieces of him, brains, all of it, was scattered around. That was the end of Bheki. // The person who did this has been found. I want this person to come out. This person is already on trial, it’s Eugene de Kock. What I’d like the Commission to find out from him, I’m not clear how Bheki’s name got involved as a sender in the parcel. Another thing that’s not clear in my mind, when they sent this parcel to Dirk Coetzee, as it was Eugene who claims he wanted to kill Dirk Coetzee. He was an expert in making bombs. When we read about letter bombs, how could he have sent Dirk Coetzee a parcel bomb, a clever like him, an expert. Didn’t he know that this thing could come back to Bheki? What I do want to find out, how did they get Bheki’s name involved in this? Eugene de Kock says he’s going to ask amnesty from you. I contest this. Eugene, when he did what he did, he knew. He knew that somebody would die. Today, I’m a widow; I’m an outcast in our society because I’m a widow. In our community and in our society you are associated with all sorts of things when you’re a widow. Because of a person who didn’t think through when they were doing … so, when this person come to you to ask for amnesty, how do you forgive such a person? If I can find an answer to this question, how do you go about forgiving this person who is a cruel murderer, who killed a defenceless person who’d never killed anyone, a person who never raped anyone, a person who never committed any crime, was just fighting for people’s rights but without carrying a gun.

Notes: TRC testimony: Catherine Mlangeni (mother); TRC testimony: Seipati Mlangeni (wife)

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