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MOTASI, Richard

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An SAP member who was shot dead by Northern Transvaal Security Branch operatives at Temba, Bophuthatswana, on 1 December 1987. Sergeant Motasi had been suspended after laying charges of assault against a white SAP officer. Four Northern Transvaal Security Branch operatives, including the second in command, were granted amnesty for the killings. They testified that they had conducted the operation on the instructions of the divisional commissioner of police, who had told them that Sergeant Motasi was a double agent (AC/2001/010, AC/1999/030 and AC/1999/32).

... Hechter, Wouter Mentz and Paul van Vuuren), which continued this week in Pretoria. This episode focuses on the murder of police sergeant Richard Motasi and his wife Irene and questions why Irene Motasi and Florence Ribeiro were killed along with their husbands. In the following segment a ...
The first segment of this episode shows the meeting between Richard and Irene Motasi?s son, Tshidiso, and one of the policemen involved in the couple?s murder: Paul van Vuuren. The segment includes interviews with other members of the Motasi family. The following segment deals with the detention ...
Murder of Sergeant Richard Motasi by Jacques Hechter and Paul van Vuuren
Paul van Vuuren, one of the five policemen implicated in Richard and Busisiwe Motasi’s murder offered to meet Thsidiso. // Hi Tshidiso, how are you? // I’m fine. // I’m glad to hear that. // This is Mandla, his cousin. // Hello Mandla, how are you? // Alright. // Listen let me tell you, all ...
... of symbolic rehabilitation of our nation, monuments, walls of remembrance, healing rituals. But we start with the story of police sergeant Richard Motasi. Jacques Hechter says he killed Motasi on the 30th of November 1987 because he became too friendly with the ANC, but there could have been ...
Sergeant Richard Motasi was a diligent policeman with no record of complaint against him in 11 years’ service, but in September 1984 he was hit on the ear by a Colonel. That started a series of events that eventually led to his death.
... dark side of the ANC in exile. Ill treatment, paranoia, torture and executions in ANC camps in neighbouring states. But first the story of Tshidiso Motasi. In 1987 Sergeant Richard Motasi and his wife Busisiwe were murdered by a police hit squad. The policemen claim they were ordered to kill ...
I was going to see my relatives, because I didn’t see them since I was young. Now I went with Mr. Motasi, because we are together, we are friends. I ask him to accompany me to go there so that I can know my history. // He was laughing and he was spinning his gun like this and he said. You see, ...
After we struggled with Richard Motasi and Captain Hechter had placed the pillow over his head and I shot him four times with an AK 47 rifle...
... terrible fight, made a lot of noise and the moment I managed to restrain him we shot him and we left the house. // After we struggled with Richard Motasi and Capt Hechter placed the pillow over his head and I shot him four times with an AK47 rifle, before this incident I’d never met the man. ...
 
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