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Special Report Transcript Episode 1, Section 3, Time 14:22Gideon Niewoudt is now on trial in the Port Elizabeth Supreme Court for murder. // The Motherwell bombing case: the state alleges that he was involved in the murder of other policemen. // At an inquest in 1993 into the murder of four other Eastern Cape activists, Niewoudt once again denied that he was ever involved in torturing the detainees. // Major Niewoudt also denied ever assaulting people in police custody during the 70s and 80s, despite the fact that a number of interdicts have been brought against him and his colleagues for alleged brutality. Notes: Supreme Court, PE; Photographs: Motherwell bombing; Reporter, SABC News, 13 August 1993 References select each tab to search for references GlossaryFour Eastern Cape UDF activists were abducted and assassinated by members of the security police on 27 June 1985 as they drove back to Cradock from a meeting in Port Elizabeth. The four were Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkonto and Fort Calata from Cradock, and Sicelo Mhlauli from Oudtshoorn. Before ... Three police officers and an informer were killed when their car was blown up by fellow police officers in Motherwell, outside Port Elizabeth, during 1989, to prevent possible revelations of police involvement in the killing of the Cradock Four. The blast was initially thought to have been an MK ... |
