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Special Report
Transcripts for Section 3 of Episode 32

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18:10At least, as long as I can see his remains please and know the person … then just take those remains and bury them where I’ll always remember. Full Transcript
18:30Isaac’s middle name ‘Bohlokho’ means pain and for the Moema family, as painful as his death, is the fact that his honour is tainted, that he is referred to as an askari, as an ANC cadre who willingly walked to the other side. In truth he, together with the brothers Johannes and Chris Mnisi, were on a mission when they were captured.Full Transcript
18:58One becomes very sceptical of those kinds of words flying around, of ‘double agent,’ ‘askari’ because we’re saying that he was captured and was not taken to any court of law and on the basis of him asking questions and then they decided that he was dangerous for them, that they were going to kill him.Full Transcript
19:17On the evening of 26 November 1981 a group of Vlakplaas men under command of Dirk Coetzee entered Botswana. Their aim was to kill ANC cadres Joyce Dipale, her husband Tieho Rola Masinga and anybody else in the Gaborone house who would, according to their intelligence, probably be ANC as well.Full Transcript and References
19:39As we entered into Gaborone I left Paul van Dyk and David Tshikalanga with a bakkie about one and a half street blocks away under a tree from the target house whilst Koos Vermeulen and myself with Almond Nofemela and Joe Mamasela proceeded to the house on the corner, right next to the target house.Full Transcript
20:03Coetzee could see that a storm was about to break and decided to use it as cover. Koos Vermeulen would stay outside while the others would enter the house.Full Transcript
20:13As we still discussing of how next do we break the door down now, two women entered the kitchen with a lit candle and opened the back door. Joe grabbed one of the women and closed her mouth and shot at her at point blank. I heard someone drop to the cement like a bag of bones and the other woman turned and ran into the house. Shots were fired at her and at a stage I pushed Almond and Joe Mamasela aside, entered the house and shot with a sub-machine gun, a HMK…Full Transcript and References
21:00Gunshot rang out as he and Joe were shooting and I was standing behind them in the house in the kitchen and as we were leaving I shot once if I remember correctly and … I wasn’t seeing anyone, we were just shooting randomly.Full Transcript
21:18Nofemela said he thought the two women were Joyce Dipale and her cousin Lilian Keagle but Lilian confirmed this week that she hadn’t been there, neither was the other target, Joyce’s husband Rola. Joe Mamasela knew Joyce Dipale and was convinced that he had killed her, but she survived, although her life is very different now. She was shot three times in Gaborone. She later suffered a stroke which severely affected her speech and memory.Full Transcript
21:53No speech … read and write gone. So, nothing.Full Transcript
22:03Joyce Dipale went to the Truth Commission because she needed to know what happened to her younger brother, Moabi Dipale. In his testimony Almond Nofemela said he and Joe Mamasela abducted Moabi Dipale and that the two of them and Koos Vermeulen assaulted him. Moabi’s aunt later received a phone call.Full Transcript and References
22:20And the very same Saturday the John Vorster police phoned us and said they found Moabi Dipale hanged in the cell, before he could even go to court. Full Transcript
22:40Today Joyce, once a poet, can no longer write or even read her own poetry. But as she listens to the words she once written she still remembers how it confirms. Full Transcript
22:50‘No amount of torture, / No amount of innocent blood being shed / No amount of distortion or pretence can stop us / In your Holy Name Morena, / We are, You with us, / Taking our land back, / Declaring peace, not only as absence of war, / But as SHALOM – JUSTICE IN ACTION! / IN YOUR HOLY NAME, / MODIMO, THE ONE ABOVE! / THE ONE IN US! P.J. Dipale.’Full Transcript
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