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Transcripts for Section 7 of Episode 8
| Time | Summary | | | 34:55 | The Truth Commission has heard evidence before of attacks on exile South Africans in neighbouring states. The attack on Father Michael Lapsley in Zimbabwe, the murder of Jackie Quinn, and others in Lesotho in 1987. On Tuesday a remarkable survivor told of the bloody South African raid on Maseru in 1982. // Nellie Marwanqana and her family fled to Lesotho in 1982. Four days after their arrival in Maseru she stood by as South African commando’s killed her husband and two children as well as some fellow South Africans who were staying in the same house. She was one of three widows who testified about the Maseru slaughter in which more that forty people died. | Full Transcript and References | | 35:41 | They kicked the door, the people who were coming inside. They said they wanted Mavimbela. At the time they were calling Pakamile, Mavimbela. There was a white man who had smeared himself and darkened himself. He was having a rug on his shoulders. I think he was at least embarrassed to shoot my husband in my presence. So he chased us a way and said my children and I should get out of the room. So, we went to the bathroom, but my youngest daughter came to the room, and then I said no we must be together. So that if one of us is killed, we should all be killed. There was a sound of gunfire and then everything was quiet thereafter. But they didn’t come to the bathroom, so I felt that we should go out. I started in Alfred’s room and I called him, Alfred! Alfred! And we realised he is dead, so we covered him with a blanket. We went to another room, there was also a visitor here and he was also shot dead. We found our brother Mpongoshe he was killed also. I said to my son, I told you ...more | Full Transcript |
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