DUVENHAGE, TJ

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A member of the SAP who was killed when a car bomb exploded outside the Johannesburg Magistrate’s court on 20 May 1987. Three other policemen were also killed in the explosion, which took place after a decoy smaller bomb had lured them to the scene. Three other people were injured. Three MK operatives were granted amnesty (AC/1998/0067).

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Transcript of episode 28, section 5, starting at: 23:33

One of the dead was policeman Andre Duvenhage. This week his parents told their side of the story to the Truth Commission in Kagiso. // I felt I must do something for him. The least I can do for him is to expose his murderer in this way because people take no notice of a video. People must know who ...

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Transcript of episode 28, section 5, starting at: 25:34

I want him to understand that I’m not the so-called monster they may have painted me to be. // It will never go away; one learns to live with it. Yes, you learn to live with it. But the hurt will not go away, it can’t go away. // When I think about that bomb and I think about the families of ...

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Transcript of episode 28, section 5, starting at: 25:18

I believe a person who killed so cold-bloodedly, I believe something must be done about him because it’s innocent people, innocent people in the street. He didn’t care who they were.

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Transcript of episode 28, section 5, starting at: 22:01

At precisely 12:30 on the 20th of May 1987 a limpet mine exploded outside the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court. A group of police officers on duty in the vicinity responded immediately. They rushed to the aid of passersby, unaware of the bomber, MK operative Joseph Kwetle who was stationed nearby.

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