Special Report Transcript Episode 38, Section 7, Time 24:07

OK, so let’s work with the reality of here it is, this is what’s happening. OK now all of the things that you guys are talking about: remorse, repentance, material and economic reparation, improving people’s lives, etc. etc. How can gestures on a national level like for instance turning … what do we do with Vlakplaas, as a way of making sense of the past? // You burn and show it live on television. You burn it so it disappears, I mean it’s like why should it … you burn it on television or whatever. You know, it must go. You burn it like they burnt people. // If you want to destroy Vlakplaas we can destroy it at any time or make it into something, but I think for the sake of future generations they should be able to go and look at exactly where their kin, their fathers, their forefathers died or where they were ill-treated. So that, destroying Vlakplaas, while it will achieve at a very minimum level or immediate thing removing from our history something that is bad. But I think that if you preserve it and if you are able to go back to it in 50 years time and say, this is a symbol we wouldn’t want to repeat in our life. // In 50 years’ time every time I look at Vlakplaas I’ll be pissed off. // And that’s the point, you want to be pissed off in 50 years time, you want to remember in 50 years’ time. // I’d like to say something while we’re still on the symbols. You’re talking of old symbols which are there and I think the question was do we give them a different meaning, do we destroy them…but whether you destroy them or give them a different meaning, they’re still symbols of apartheid, you know what I mean. And I can imagine having what-what, like a big wall in the township there and all the names written down there. The brothers don’t really care.

Notes: Reporter; Eric Myeni; Bheki Nkosi; Eric Myeni; Claude Braude; Joe Nina

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