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Special Report
Transcripts for Section 7 of Episode 37

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18:32Some of the policemen’s victims survived. Scheepers Morudu was a Mamelodi High School activist in the late 1980s. That was enough reason for Paul van Vuuren and his colleagues to torture him. Even worse, they forced him to become a police informer. Full Transcript and References
18:50… Captain Hechter, Sergeant Van der Westhuyzen and Slang, his name was Danny Sihlale questioned him. We used a gas mask, assaulted him and executed electrical shocks on him to gain information. He was a great ANC activist. He had thrown several petrol bombs in Mamelodi and he was involved in arson and petrol attacks on policemen’s houses. Electrical shocks were also executed on him and it was necessary to gain information from him about his activities and strategies and thereafter he became a source of the police and gave us very important information. // Can I ask the methods which were used as to your interrogation? // It’s a long time ago but if I remember correctly we used a gas mask, we put it over his head and we left the plug in and we denied him oxygen. His hands and feet were tied and we assaulted him several times. We assaulted him with our bare hands and some of the constables involved, we kicked him too. Some of the constables involved assaulted him with the ...moreFull Transcript
20:46Did all of them take part in the assault? // All of them took part in the assault but the person who assaulted me seriously and who kicked me in the face is Van Vuuren. // If we could maybe facilitate some discussion, some real sort of heart to heart discussion between you and the perpetrators to help you deal with the matters, do you think it may help you? // No, at this stage no I don’t think it will help me.Full Transcript and References
 
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