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Special Report Transcript Episode 9, Section 3, Time 08:17

Let me introduce you to Jann Turner, daughter of the prominent 1970s activist Dr Rick Turner, who was assassinated in 1978. Jann was with him when he died. // Jann, why did you make this film we’re about to show? // Well, it wasn’t really until 1989 when Jacques Pauw first revealed the death squad story that I thought we might stand a chance of finding out who killed my dad. And, I began to investigate it and in 1993 came here to see if we could find out who the killer was and made a film about that journey. // So the film is three years old? // Yes. // You officially went to the Truth Commission this week. What is it you want from that Commission? // I want to know who killed my dad and why. // And if you find that out would you forgive that person? // For me this process is less about forgiveness than it’s about understanding. It’s not that I don’t want to forgive it’s that I can’t actually locate forgiveness in me for this. I’d like to understand what happened and I think when I do understand what happened I’ll at least be able to accept that the assassin and I are going to go forward living in this country and get on with our lives. Forgiveness is something entirely beyond my understanding if you like.

Notes: Max du Preez interviews Jann Turner

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A political scientist at the University of Natal who was shot dead at his home in Durban on 8 January 1978. He had been banned since 1973 for his opposition to apartheid and had been repeatedly harassed by the Security Branch during the 1970s. His two young daughters were with him in the house at ...
 
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