Special Report Transcript Episode 56, Section 2, Time 07:08

May I address the applicants? May I ask the applicants to turn around and face me? // This is the first opportunity we’ve had to look each other in the eye and talk. I want to ask Mr. Makoma who actually entered the church, my wife was sitting right at the door where you came in, she was wearing a long blue coat, can you remember if you shot her? // Makoma could not remember, but Dawie Ackerman’s direct appeal to the three young men brought to the fore all of the elements that this process is about, a shared guilt, anger, forgiveness and the raw pain of the sins of the past. // I’ve never cried over the death of my wife, other than have silent cries, I have never had an emotional crying outburst. While Makoma was testifying and he talked about his tortures and that he was suicidal, I could identify with that. I thought to myself and I wrote you a note to bring your cross examination to an end, because what are we doing here, the truth yes, but I looked at the way in which he answered you and his anger. How on earth are we going to be reconciled?

Notes: Dawie Ackerman; Applicants face Ackerman; Reporter; Dawie Ackerman

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