Special Report Transcript Episode 56, Section 4, Time 24:14

The seven applicants before the Amnesty Committee this week repeatedly stated that their killings were informed by their views on race, particularly as suggested by the infamous PAC slogan, ‘one settler one bullet.’ Those who attacked the St. James Church did so because it was located in a white area, Kenilworth. The three applying for Amy Biehl’s murder similarly said that she was an immediate target because she was a white person. These young men and their lawyers attempted to explain to the Amnesty Committee that their understanding of white people had a political dimension. Firstly they say, white people were not indigenous to Africa, they were settlers. Secondly white people were representatives of a system which had appropriated the lands of the Africans. Any white person was therefore a legitimate target for attack. The Amnesty Committee is confronted with a prickly issue. It has to decide whether these acts were purely racist, killing because you don’t like the colour of someone’s skin or whether they were politically motivated, killing a white person because he or she represented a political system which you opposed.

Notes: Max du Preez

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