Special Report Transcript Episode 30, Section 2, Time 01:44

These young men were shot and killed by police on March 3rd 1986. It appears that they were at this Gugulethu intersection between NY1 and NY111 because they were planning to attack a police bus which used this route regularly. It is likely that they were members of an underground ANC cell. It is also likely that they were armed on that crisp autumn morning they were shot to pieces. What is not likely is the official story the police told about these deaths ten years ago. Police said they were under attack and had acted purely in self defence. They subsequently harassed and threatened eye witnesses who saw them shoot some of the men at point blank range. They slapped a subpoena on a journalist who interviewed these eye witnesses. They then put a second journalist on trial for reporting untrue police action based on interviews he had done with the families. This week those families continued to grieve and to ask why their sons died the way they did.

Notes: Police footage, scene of incident

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