Special Report Transcript Episode 5, Section 6, Time 26:55

There can be no doubt, whatsoever that this murder was a grave crime and that it was a brutal crime. We won’t persuade you otherwise. // Brian Currin, the lawyer for Diale and Makgale argued that despite the gravity of their act they met the Commission’s requirements for amnesty. // Their political objective, their associated political objective was not only to get keys, and we heard that. It was to take back the affairs of the tribe, to take back governance of the tribe, to take back that power of the tribe, of their own people. // The fate of these two men now rests with the Amnesty Committee, but for the Bafokeng their public confession spelled a new start. // That’s why today I come here in front of the Commission and the Bafokeng tribe and the granddaughters of Mister Glad. And I come to please ask forgiveness from them. // I want the deceased’s family to forgive me about what I did. // Really what these people have done is very terrible, but the truth they have told this Commission or this Committee stems from political connotations. I think they have …by that the truth they have told this Committee and I have forgiven them.

Notes: TRC hearing: Brian Currin (lawyer); Voiceover; Brian Currin; Voiceover; Christopher Makgale; Boy Diale; Aron Mokgatle (Victim’s son)

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