Special Report Transcript Episode 7, Section 6, Time 29:37

By early 1987 brutality of a different kind faced the Bongulethu community. // Something that stood out as quite horrific from this area, apart from many cases of police torture that were reported - in some cases, Supreme Court action was instituted; the large scale detentions without trial that took place in small places, even like Plettenburg Bay; was the presence of the kitskonstabels. // The special constables emerged with pomp and ceremony. They were the black face of law and order. Created by a state unable to keep the lid on large scale resistance. // I’m talking about largely untrained people who were merely given six weeks training and then issued with a lethal shotgun with SSG shot … it was a semi-automatic shotgun with live ammunition, a teargas canister, handcuffs, a rubber baton and a aerosol can of teargas. With hardly any training these people were sent into the townships.

Notes: Voiceover; Kobus Pienaar (Human Rights Lawyer); Kitskonstabel parade; Kobus Pienaar