MITCHELL, L

Just as many young black men from South Africa fled during the 1976 period and who were eventually trained as ANC terrorists, as I and many others then saw it, so my life took on a parallel whereby I was trained in counterinsurgency tactics and counterrevolutionary measures to stop the eventual ...

On your arrival at New Hanover there had not been any unrest. // Yes sir that is quite correct.

I forgive him because he has come and asked for forgiveness because there is nothing we can do. They are dead. But all I would like to appeal for is that they should help with my eight children. // If I had to say to the community exactly which path I’m taking and that path doesn’t mature or ...

... the Investigations task unit got involved. Dutton nailed seven policemen including none other than the new police station commander, Captain Brian Mitchell. In 1992 Justice Andrew Wilson was the man who sentenced Mitchell to death. This week it was Judge Wilson’s task to consider setting him ...

Mitchell arrived in Pietermaritzburg in 1987. He was evidently good at his job because before long he was promoted to station commander at New Hanover. Here, Mitchell served on the local Joint Management Committee. This was a structure of the total strategy, PW Botha’s brainchild to counter the ...

The killers mistook a night vigil at an Inkatha household for the UDF gathering they were supposed to attack. Relatives of the dead wept as Mitchell told how he dropped the armed men off, waited while they executed the attack and finally how he gave the instructions for the burning of another UDF ...

He might not be forgiven but Trust Feed killer Brian Mitchell was granted amnesty and set free in December. It was not a popular decision. He had served less than five years of his 30 year sentence for the killing of 11 people in the Natal Midlands. It was a tragic mistake as the four policemen ...

... rather than victims. And we’re going to have a good dose of it. Apart from the secretive six policemen convicted, Trust Feed killer Brian Mitchell will tell his story and name names in two weeks’ time. The week after that the military generals will appear before the Truth Commission ...

Although we were not allowed to film an interview I did manage to talk to Brian Mitchell and during a conversation that lasted almost an hour I felt that I had glimpsed a sincerely changed human being behind the face of this mass killer, a man who eight years ago had little or no regard for life ...

The Human Rights Violations Committee visits Paarl in the Boland this coming week and the Amnesty Committee will hear the application of the killer of Trust Feed, Captain Brian Mitchell, in Pietermaritzburg. That means, don’t miss our programme next Sunday. Good night.

Towards the end of 1988 Mitchell and Terreblanche attended a meeting with Inkatha leaders including David Ntombela where it was decided to launch an operation that would clear and hold the Trust Feed area for Inkatha.

Later on when the case was tried at the Supreme Court Captain Mitchell said it was a mistake. Now I want to state here, categorically, it was never a mistake, because the murder was planned with the logistics and everything, special constables brought there, put in strategic areas and they knew ...

Captain Deon Terreblanche was commander of the riot unit at Hammarsdale. Along with Mitchell and the Joint Management Committee he used these special constables to drive a lethal wedge between UDF and Inkatha supporters in Trust Feed.

... much more this incredible thing that I referred to, this magnanimity, this willingness to forgive. You saw it with the Trust Feed case, the Brian Mitchell case where despite the fact that he was responsible for such a devastating massacre; when he went there, facilitated by the Commission, they ...

... at Marawa House in Edendale where Major Eugene Terreblance, he was the head of the Riots Unit at Oribi – he’s now dead – and Captain Brian Mitchell, the station commander - the then station commander of New Hanover, Jerome Gabela and Johan Nxumalo, local Inkatha representatives and Nethi ...

The Amnesty Committee must be feeling some pressure to decide the Mitchell case soon, either way the decision will send an important signal about truth and reconciliation to anyone considering an amnesty application.

Eleven people died in the Trust Feed massacre. Captain Brian Mitchell is serving a 30 year sentence for this crime. Four special policemen who were also convicted have since received indemnity.

Brian Mitchell is currently serving the fifth year of a thirty year jail sentence. The only way out for him is amnesty. When he submitted his application in Pietermaritzburg this week he didn’t deny his guilt, instead he explained how the eleven murders he was convicted for were committed with a ...

The community of Trust Feed has also requested me to advise the Amnesty Committee that they will try to forgive Mr. Brian Mitchell if he becomes actively involved in the reconstruction of the community that he was responsible for destroying.

... I want to build my house because I am living in the mountains. I have nowhere to stay. I stay in a small house. I have no children anymore. Brian Mitchell wiped out all my children. I forgive him. Even though the Lord is watching some days I would sleep without eating because I could not eat. ...