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Special Report Transcript Episode 73, Section 2, Time 02:00In April last year the widows of these three men asked the Human Rights Violations Committee to find out what had happened to their husbands since their disappearance in 1985. This week they got some answers. Former Eastern Cape Security Policemen Harold Snyman, Hermanus du Plessis, Johan van Zyl, Gideon Niewoudt and Gerhardus Lotz are asking for amnesty for the murder of the Pebco Three. Vlakplaas operatives Roelf Venter, Gert Beeslaar, Kimpani Mogoai and Johannes Koole are applying for their abduction. Notes: HRV hearing References select each tab to search for references Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims GlossarySipho Hashe, Champion Galela and Qaqawuli Godolozi, members of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO), an affiliate of the UDF, were abducted on 8 May 1985 by members of the Port Elizabeth Security Branch, taken to Post Chalmers and killed. Their bodies were subsequently thrown into ... a farm near Pretoria used as a base for police hit squads |