Special Report Transcript Episode 51, Section 2, Time 09:20

Paul van Vuuren, one of the five policemen implicated in Richard and Busisiwe Motasi’s murder offered to meet Thsidiso. // Hi Tshidiso, how are you? // I’m fine. // I’m glad to hear that. // This is Mandla, his cousin. // Hello Mandla, how are you? // Alright. // Listen let me tell you, all the people always say, we must say sorry, we must say sorry. Now, just to say I’m sorry is an empty word. Do you know what I mean? Can you really be sorry you know? It’s the first time in my life, no it’s the second, it’s the third time in my life that I meet you. I’m not the type of person that come and say I’m sorry, I don’t even know you, you know what I mean? If I look back at what happened, at apartheid and so on, then I’m sorry about what happened to your parents and to you because it was a waste of human life. I’m sorry for that. I know that you must hate me. I know if somebody killed my parents maybe I would have been much more hateful than you. I can’t really say how would I feel, I can just imagine how would I feel. // I don’t have parents. My granny can die any day, because she’s old now. So, if she dies who’s going to take care of me? // Yes, that’s a difficult question. You can come live with me, I’ll look after you. // Like, as you told me, it’s very hard for you to say you are sorry, but for me it’s like you did something very bad and I can’t forgive you, I can’t. I can’t because it’s very hard for me. // I understand that. I’ve got sympathy for you. I understand that you can’t forgive me.

Notes: Lawyer’s offices, Pretoria; Van Vuuren; Tshidiso Motasi; Van Vuuren; Van Vuuren; Mandla; Van Vuuren; Tshidiso Motasi; Van Vuuren [laughing]; Motasi; Van Vuuren

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