Special Report Transcript Episode 66, Section 1, Time 27:25

Why is all this relevant Mr. Chairman? My point about all this detail is that if the mainstream newspapers and the SABC had reflected and followed up on all these confessions and revelations, every single one subsequently proved to have been true, the government would have been forced to then put a stop to the torture, the assassinations and the dirty tricks. It would have saved many, many lives and South African citizens and politicians would not have been shocked or pretended they were shocked at the revelations before the Truth Commission the last year.

Notes: Max du Preez’s TRC submission