SITHOLE, (first name not given)

period of three months after which we evaluate them, we talk to them to see that they are prepared to be let into the mainstream prison and they are not prepared to be disruptive and aggressive to other people. And what we did, we did a big surveillance, all over the world and we saw the idea of C ...

The widows from both sides of the conflict count the bodies of their loved ones heaping up in the village graveyards. Virginia Lombo lost her husband and breadwinner Lolo to a bullet fired by Nhlanhla Sibisi, an ANC cadre who also wants amnesty.

If prisoners kill each other, stab each other, they’re always on my neck. They’re always fighting and saying we don’t respect the human rights of prisoners. And when we start to restrain and start to develop prisoners so they should stop aggressive behaviour then we don’t respect the human ...

... He has a bad profile, an evil profile. If you think of people he killed and at this point in time, how do you evaluate him and think that he may not continue that behaviour. And I want to emphasise, whoever made him an A, it was a big mistake. ...

... his chest, they opened up his chest with an axe. // My sister’s boy was sleeping there. They took this boy outside and I thought […] there’s another one hiding underneath the other bed. He also kept quiet, they said, ‘dress up, let us go’. Another one said, ‘no, bring the gun here, ...

And they kicked Sipho. Then Sithole began to hit him with a sjambok because Sithole said Sipho tried to burn his house. When I was still there we didn’t agree that allegation what Sithole made, that we were trying to burn his house. Then they ordered us to go out of the cell. I was taken to cell ...

... before I arrived. One of the policemen was a white one, instructed Sipho to stand up. Then he kicked very hard to Sipho. Every time I asked them not to continue beating ...

Eugene de Kock could not speak to those families because he had just been moved to a new cell at Pretoria Maximum Security Prison. Cell 63 is housed in South Africa’s new super maximum security unit, known as C Max, Closed Maximum Security Unit. Life at C Max means exactly that: confinement, ...