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Special Report Transcript Episode 7, Section 5, Time 26:47There’s nothing impersonal about conflict in a small community, like that of Oudtshoorn, in the Klein Karoo. // In the same month and year that the first state of emergency gripped the nation, June 1985, three Bongulethu youths were shot dead by police. They were shot at without warning after one of the youngsters went to a local security policeman’s house believing it empty. // Fezile Hanse was 14, Andile Majola 13, and Patrick Madikane 14. Their deaths started a spiral of violence in this tiny but militant township on the outskirts of Oudtshoorn. The new mayor of the town, Sipho Kroma regarded Patrick Madikane as his brother. Notes: Max du Preez; State of emergency violence; Bongulethu Three children were shot dead by named members of the SAP in Bongolethu, Outdshoorn, Cape, on 17 June 1985, when the police members concealed themselves inside the home of a policeman who had been attacked, and opened fire on those entering or approaching the house. A state of emergency was declared on 20 July 1985 in terms of Section 2(1) of the Public Safety Act of 1953. It affected 36 magisterial districts in the Cape, Transvaal and the Orange Free State, and was extended to eight other areas on 26 October 1985. It was lifted on 7 March 1986 and re-imposed ... |
