Special Report Transcript Episode 71, Section 1, Time 00:29

Hello. Welcome to this week’s Special Report, the 71st edition of our programme. We hope more of our former, regular viewers are getting used to our new, rather early timeslot. On tonight’s programme we have reports from: Gael Reagon on the Cape Town torturers who want amnesty, Anneliese Burgess on the inside story of the amnesty process, René Schiebe on compensation for victims and Jann Turner on the story of an unlikely spy. An interesting menu of stories. Let’s start with the amnesty hearings in Cape Town this past week. In June this year the country watched with fascinated horror as former security police captain Jeffrey Benzien re-enacted the torture method that gained him dubious fame, the wet bag method. Benzien is asking for amnesty for the torture of a number of political detainees as well as for the killing of Cape activist Ashley Kriel. This week he was joined by two of his superiours. Superintendent William Liebenberg is also asking for amnesty for torture. And the man who commanded them both, retired Major-General Kobus Griebenauw came to support his men and the atrocities they had committed in the name of the National Party government.

Notes: Max du Preez

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