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Transcripts for Section 2 of Episode 38
| Time | Summary | | | 02:24 | Sergeant Richard Motasi was a diligent policeman with no record of complaint against him in 11 years’ service, but in September 1984 he was hit on the ear by a Colonel. That started a series of events that eventually led to his death. | Full Transcript and References | | 02:44 | I found Richard sleeping in the lounge here on the floor. His head was right here. He was shot in the ear and pieces of his skull, they were on the floor and some of his brain was on the floor. So, I left Richard again, rushed to the bedroom looking for Tsidiso. I find that Tsidiso’s bedroom was upside down, everything, these big trunks, police trunks was quite open; all the documents they were out. I looked for Tsidiso; I thought maybe his corpse is underneath those things. I couldn’t find the child. When I turn around I hear the child saying ‘Gogo baba bulayile.’ That means they’ve killed them. I said who? He said the policemen. I said to him how do you know. He said ‘keba bone with kadi jerseys ne ba apere dijersey tse tswanang letsa papa waka.’ It means ”they were wearing the jerseys that look like my father’s.” | Full Transcript | | 04:00 | When I grabbed him and dragged him into the house he was screaming and shouting, there was a lot of noise. He put up a terrible fight, made a lot of noise and the moment I managed to restrain him we shot him and we left the house. // After we struggled with Richard Motasi and Capt Hechter placed the pillow over his head and I shot him four times with an AK47 rifle, before this incident I’d never met the man. // I saw him that night for the very first time and I eliminated him according to my instructions. | Full Transcript | | 04:38 | The Amnesty Committee had to ascertain why Motasi was murdered. It could have been one of two reasons, either he became an informer for the ANC and the Zimbabwean police as the security police alleged or he became a nuisance when he claimed R10 000 damages after the 1984 assault. | Full Transcript | | 05:00 | According to Klopper he was feeding sensitive information to the Zimbabwean security forces and this information led to the fact that reporters and informants were exposed in Zimbabwe. // I would also like to add that it was not said to me that it was a conclusion that this person was an ANC agent. Brigadier Siemert said to me that this man was an ANC agent and I made the logical conclusion that he had to have had information that he was an ANC agent. I did not question him about that. | Full Transcript | | 05:37 | When you got this instruction from Col Ras to go out and to murder one of your colleagues, did you not think of questioning that instruction? // It wasn’t strange that such a request be put to us or we should be given such an instruction to eliminate a policeman since he was an ANC agent. // You’ve heard evidence that he was providing information to the security forces in Zimbabwe. What… do you have any view on that? // I don’t think because I knew Motasi. I knew his type of intelligence. I don’t think that he could have reached that … such a decision. He was a very good young man, clean and tidy, doing his job. The whole problem started immediately after this thing. All along there was nothing wrong with him, he was working right. In fact he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant on merit, he didn’t write an examination. | Full Transcript | | 06:56 | I was going to see my relatives, because I didn’t see them since I was young. Now I went with Mr. Motasi, because we are together, we are friends. I ask him to accompany me to go there so that I can know my history. // He was laughing and he was spinning his gun like this and he said. You see, your son-in-law is dead. You know why he died? And I said I don’t know. He was talking too much and you also if you talk too much … he pointed a gun and put a gun here on my [forehead] … you’ll get this. And I said to him. Oh please, don’t kill me. Let me bury them first then you can kill me. | Full Transcript |
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