Special Report Transcript Episode 39, Section 1, Time 00:07

South Africa watched in anger and in shame as the dead bodies of yet more security police victims were exhumed from secret graves in KwaZulu-Natal the last few days. The families have known for a long time that the police had killed the women and men in the graves. But this is what the truth and reconciliation process is about, to prove those suspicions beyond doubt and to put names and faces to the victims and the killers. That is what we’ll do in our programme tonight. We’ll also take you to the last week of the amnesty hearing of five security policemen who have confessed to dozens of murders. We look at their latest confessions and we look at their psychological profiles. Is it possible that they could also be victims of a kind? But let’s start with the dramatic discoveries of the graves this week. The Truth Commission investigators only knew about the murder sites because six senior security policemen showed them. The policemen want amnesty for the murders. The bones of one of the bodies taken out of the soil are those of Phila Ndwandwe. At the age of 24 she was a commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe in KwaZulu-Natal. When she was abducted from Swaziland nine years ago, police denied all involvement.

Notes: Max du Preez