Special Report Transcript Episode 80, Section 1, Time 00:28

Hello. We have quite a variety of stories on this week’s programme. We have a report on the amnesty applications of the three policemen involved with the killing of the Gugulethu Seven. We look at the history and effects of the pass laws and the hostel system and we look at truth commissions elsewhere in the world. We also bring you a special documentary on the notorious Vlakplaas death commando and their secret weapon, former guerrillas called ‘askaris.’ But we start with the past week’s hearing in Cape Town. On Thursday the Truth Commission completed its long round of public hearings into the 1986 deaths of a group of young men who’ve become known as the Gugulethu Seven. For the past eighteen months we’ve witnessed the peeling back of layer upon layer of lies surrounding the police killings. The appearance this week of a long awaited mystery witness promised yet more dramatic revelations.

Notes: Max du Preez