Special Report Transcript Episode 11, Section 4, Time 23:45

The problem was, the communities, the people themselves felt they’ve been oppressed by the apartheid government. At the same time, when they go back to their place of living, they are now under threat from the witches. So you can see that in the course of that struggle, people have two opponents and now it became clear they needed to crash their opponents. So it happened, it might be a coincidence that this thing of witch hunting became very rife later around the 80s when we had the state of emergency, riots at schools, and so on. But basically it became more popular because of the extent of unity amongst the youth in our provinces.

Notes: Phuti wa Seloba (SA Communications Service)