Special Report Transcript Episode 3, Section 3, Time 21:58

Mozambique was an important hunting ground for South African death squads. This country nearly lost one of its most celebrated sons when the CCB unit, commanded by this man, Pieter Botus, decided to kill academic Albie Sachs, today a constitutional court judge. // Maputo, 7 April 1988. In a moment of darkness Sachs loses his arm. Four ribs are broken, his right heel fractured, his liver lacerated, his eardrums ruptured, his body full of shrapnel wounds. But he survives. Although Botus has admitted complicity in the attack, which was planned in this country, he has never been charged. Neither has the squad of CCB men who at the Harms Commission admitted they were involved in sabotage, conspiracy to murder, attempted murder and arson. But Pretoria’s tentacles of death stretched far beyond the borders of the subcontinent.

Notes: Pieter Botus, ; Albie Sachs, badly wounded