Special Report Transcript Episode 6, Section 5, Time 20:09

I came upon this … envelope that had been among the accumulated mail. I opened it and it was addressed to me and inside were two religious magazines. The magazines were wrapped in plastic, sealed in plastic, so I ripped open the plastic, I took out the magazines, both religious, one in Afrikaans, one in English. I put aside the Afrikaans one. My Afrikaans is not very good. And I opened the English magazine, and the act of opening the magazine was the detonating device for a bomb. I can still remember what happened. The actual explosion is still … it’s just something with me. I remember pain of a scale that I didn’t think a human being could ever experience. I remember going into darkness, being thrown backwards by the force of the bomb. The exact angle saved my life that I opened it. I opened it on a small coffee table. If I had opened it in a … something like this, a table like this, it would have killed me, because it would have knocked out the heart or knocked off the head.

Notes: TRC testimony: Father Michael Lapsley

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