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Special Report Transcript Episode 46, Section 3, Time 08:11

They took ice cubes and forced them into my anus. One policeman ordered them to bring the electrocution equipment. While these ice cubes were in my anus I was electrocuted. // This little bottle of milk was going to be poured onto my forehead. I didn’t know what was happening. They were aiming that this milk should drip down on my penis so that the calf can come and suck the milk. // They took ropes and tied his legs and hands and put him on a chair. They burnt plastic and made it drop onto his head. // They pulled out his fingernails with pliers and then they set him alight with petrol. It’s a terrible shocking thing and it is one of the worst stories that we have heard since we have been in this Commission.

Notes: TRC testimony: Andrew Chabeli; Richard Sello; Jacob Msawuli (father murdered by comrades); Richard Lyster (Truth Commissioner)

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TRC Victims
An ANCYL member who was severely assaulted and tortured by members of the SAP in Koppies, Orange Free State, in August 1992. At the time he was involved in organising a rent and consumer boycott.
A SRC member who was detained and tortured by named members of the SAP at Petrus Steyn police station, OFS, on 12 August 1987, during school boycotts in the area.
Was tortured and then burnt to death by named ANC supporters in Koppies, OFS, in November 1992, allegedly because his son was believed to be a policeman. Burning liquid plastic was poured onto his head and his fingernails were removed with a pair of pliers. Four people were sentenced to 25 years` ...
 
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