Special Report Transcript Episode 15, Section 2, Time 03:17

Piet Botha and Eugene Marais applied for amnesty at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in Durban this week. The killing of seven people on the night of 9 October 1990 was a politically motivated act of war, they said. In June of that year Piet Rudolf, leader of the right wing organisation, the Order Boerevolk stole weapons from the South African Air Force Headquarters in Pretoria and declared war on the National Party government. He sent this video to the Beeld newspaper. // ‘With this we would like to demonstrate that we will fight the government with every means available and that its destruction is our highest priority.’ // Shortly after this Piet Botha was recruited into the organisation and ordered to establish a cell in Richards Bay. He in turn recruited Marais and Smuts.

Notes: Eugene Marais; Piet Botha; Adriaan Smuts; News report; Orde Boerevolk Video clip