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Transcripts for Section 2 of Episode 50
| Time | Summary | | | 01:52 | ‘Bearing the Brunt: the night of the assegais. Report by Anneliese Burgess.’ // For much of the eighties the small township of Bruntville here outside Mooiriver in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands was a relatively peaceful place, but in 1990 the war that has ripped this province apart came to Bruntville. In November 1990 the first so-called Bruntville massacre took place when 15 people were killed. It happened after IFP residents from the two small hostel compounds here behind me attacked the township residents. Less than a month later an even more horrific massacre took place. In the space of two days 18 people were killed. It all began on the 3rd of December after shots had allegedly been fired at the IFP aligned hostels injuring some of the residents. ANC members were killed in the skirmishes that followed, but tensions boiled over into a full scale attack the next day when hostel dwellers swept down into the township in the early hours of the morning. Ria Madlala’s story is that ...more | Full Transcript and References | | 03:10 | I then decided to go out and see what was happening. I went out and found Thando lying on the ground. I could see her eyes staring. I couldn’t tell whether she was dead already. I rushed to our home which was burning. As I tried to pass the soldiers, they said I should stand back. Nobody was allowed in, because those people were there and they would kill me. I said I did not care whether they killed me because my mother was inside. She was not able to get out. Even if she was dead, it would be better to find her corpse than to watch her burn. As the fire subsided I went into the house even although it was full of smoke I found my mother lying on the ground facing upwards. She had a lot of spear wounds; she had been hit with a stone on her cheek. I was alone. I dragged her outside and put her on the stoep. | Full Transcript | | 04:37 | Ria’s six year old niece and elderly mother were two of those in the 18 coffins at a mass funeral a week later. This week, many tears were again shed when the other victims of the massacre relived that day. | Full Transcript | | 04:57 | I found her lying dead and her stomach was big and her mouth was wide open and her eyes were open as well. // And Sibusiso ran and went to the bridge next to Luzeke. That is where they got him when he was running away from them. // It was after my son’s death, the impi was coming for the second time now. It was early hours of the morning at about four. And they were throwing stones, breaking windows, they damage our houses. I was inside with my children. I told my children not to scream, not to cry, not to talk. // This group of people followed my wife and the other one took out an assegai and stabbed my wife from the front and the assegai went through to the back. | Full Transcript and References | | 06:11 | Bruntville Massacre Funeral 1991 | Full Transcript |
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