Special Report Transcript Episode 70, Section 1, Time 23:58

You fall short here of taking criminal responsibility and I think one could actually question that. The whole concept of vicarious liability, the putting into place things like Vlakplaas, the CCB, where you must have a sense that things can go horribly wrong. Now I think that’s what we would like to get an answer on. // I guess nobody has the answer. Maybe, and let me try to put forward some of one’s own views in that regard, maybe it’s just a question that things have developed over a period of time in such a way that in the end we were all part of a frame of mind - politicians, officials, people in minor positions even – that believed that there was an enemy that had to be wiped out, that believed that there was not a just cause on the side of the majority of South Africans and that believed that for the protection of the minority that was the right thing and the only thing to do. Maybe it was in the end fear that dictated.

Notes: Yasmin Sooka; Roelf Meyer

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