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| 11:01 | Victor Khetisi Kheswa’s death is still a controversial issue. The state pathologist proclaimed natural causes. Many say it’s a lie. | Full Transcript |
| 11:10 | I saw it in the newspaper that the police who were working with him had killed him, because they were scared that he was going to reveal the truth. | Full Transcript |
| 11:26 | The ANC remains concerned that after so many allegations were made against him he should die in police custody under mysterious circumstance. We ask, was his death part of a broader cover to prevent information on the sources of violence in the Vaal becoming known. | Full Transcript |
| 11:47 | June 17, 1992. About 300 residents at the Kwamadala Hostel and members of the security forces turned Boipatong into a place of terror. 49 people died that night. News of the massacre reverberated throughout South Africa and the world. This week, some of the survivors told the Truth Commission their story. | Full Transcript and References |
| 12:11 | It was at about 9 o’clock in the evening and we heard the sound of shattering windows. As we were still asking ourselves as to what the problem could be we heard some voices mumbling at the door. | Full Transcript |
| 12:35 | We heard voices saying ‘open up dogs, you dogs, open up!’ they were throwing stones and the stones came through the windows hitting inside the house. | Full Transcript |
| 12:45 | And just as I was getting under the bed, trying to hide myself, they gained entry into the house and they asked where the dogs were. As I was trying to hide under the bed, they came, they stabbed me all over the body, they even stabbed me on my neck and now I’m a quadriplegic. | Full Transcript |
| 13:09 | They came to the backroom, my husband came out and they killed him. | Full Transcript |
| 13:17 | I wanted to protect myself and I was cut on the hand and here. And my child was also chopped on the head; my child is paralysed, he’s in a wheelchair now. | Full Transcript |
| 13:35 | They stabbed me through and also stabbed on my hand, beating me at the same time; and my fingers were chopped and my head was broken. And they put the spear through my child. When I looked, I saw the spear right through the body of the child. | Full Transcript |
| 13:59 | There were shots and people were crying. As I was running a white person said ‘Zulu, capture him, there he is’ and I went straight into the passage. When I got into the passage they couldn’t see me anymore and I heard a loud bang of a gun behind me, seven times. I ran just alongside the shacks and I went straight into the weeds. // You said in your written statement that you heard someone saying in Afrikaans ‘kry hom Zulu’ [Get him Zulu]. Are you positive that it was in Afrikaans that the man spoke? // I’m telling the truth, sir. | Full Transcript |
| 14:41 | I realize that police were there but I felt as if I was dreaming because I didn’t believe that police could be there. | Full Transcript |
| 14:51 | It was a white person wearing balaclavas. Round the eyes I could see and the nose was a sharp nose and it wasn’t that of our black people. | Full Transcript |
| 15:04 | Now this group of killers left and the Comrades came thereafter. When they arrived they called us all back. They said ‘please come back from your hiding place there …’ I searched all over the shack area for my wife and my child, I couldn’t find them and another person told me that ‘I’ve seen a woman right at the corner there.’ When I went to investigate it was my wife. She’s been stabbed; she’s been shot with pellets. Her intestines were outside. And she said to me ‘I left the child at one shack.’ When I went to investigate at the shack I found my child’s head chopped and he was already dead and he also had pellets in his body. | Full Transcript |
| 15:55 | And in the morning the very same people came in the very same uniform. They were still like the previous day. They took my name. They said they needed some statements as to who had injured the people. I was quite scared to tell them that you are the ones that were here yesterday. | Full Transcript |
| 16:20 | They were driving hippos when they came into the township. Even when they went back, they were driving in hippos. Because when we went to Sebokeng Hospital the hippos were driving them into Kwamadala Hostel. | Full Transcript and References |
| 16:37 | Another victim of the massacre was the already fragile negotiation process when the ANC pulled out of the multiparty talks at CODESA. | Full Transcript and References |
| 16:45 | We cannot tolerate a situation where the regime’s control of state power allows it the space to deny and cover up its role in fostering and fermenting violence. The Boipatong massacre is one of the most chilling instances of the consequences of the actions of the FW de Klerk regime. The regime must immediately end its campaign of terror against the people and the democratic movement. | Full Transcript |
| 17:20 | The full story has not been told. All records of police communication that evening have been destroyed. The names of the 17 men who had been convicted were kept secret to protect their families. The Goldstone Commission’s report on Boipatong was never publicly released. Former Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee says the police death squads were responsible. | Full Transcript and References |
| 17:44 | Boipatong, Vlakplaas job. I can assure you that Brig van Heerden and Snor Vermeulen, two of the Vlakplaas guys involved, blackened with these things that they use in plays and balaclavas, orchestrated … Boipatong, Vlakplaas job. | Full Transcript |
