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Special Report Transcript Episode 1, Section 7, Time 29:31Karl Weber had stopped off for a drink at the Highgate Hotel in East London on the first of May 1991. A man with a balaclava stormed into the room and opened fire with an AK47. Five people were killed and many injured. Weber lost his left arm and most use of his right arm. // My life was changed overnight, being a disabled person. It’s taken some time. One has to sort of accept … I have accepted it and I have to carry on with the daily routine of my life. It is not something that will be forgotten about and I think justice should be done. // But Webber still has faith in the Truth Commission. // I think this is the start of something new. I’ve got a lot of faith in it and some other people haven’t, and I think it’s a start of something new, it’s a beginning of something. Notes: Highgate Hotel Bar; Weber hospitalized; TRC Testimony: Karl Weber; Weber outside City Hall questioned by news reporters References select each tab to search for references Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims GlossaryAzanian People's Liberation army, military wing of the PAC, formed in 1967 During the early 1990s, the PAC proclaimed a military strategy of a 'protracted people's war', which involved the infiltration of APLA guerrillas into the country to conduct rural guerrilla warfare. The initial targets of such attacks were members of the security forces and white farmers who were ... |