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Special Report Transcript Episode 19, Section 2, Time 01:33

The Commission earlier said, he referred to the security branch as the elite of the police. I call them cowards, Mr. Commissioner. I call them the scum of the police. They are responsible not only for what they’ve done to me and my family, they are responsible for that that’s happened to the whole community.

Notes: TRC testimony: Leonard Veenendaal

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Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims
Namibian elections 533 For many, the acceptance of UN Resolution 435 and the ensuing elections provided a dry run for the elections in South Africa. All efforts were thrown into reducing the SWAPO vote – with considerable success given the time frame. To this purpose, some R180 million was ...
Sabotage and Bombing of Strategic Targets 349 During March 1990, a mosque in Nelspruit was bombed by right-wingers. Two months later Melrose House, the site of the signing of the Anglo-Boer War Treaty, was extensively damaged by a bomb. The Orde Boerevolk claimed responsibility for this as well ...
■ SECURITY FORCES Detention and Torture 30 Evidence before the Commission indicates that detention1 and torture continued to be used by the SAP in the early 1990s. 31 The majority of torture victims were short-term detainees, frequently arrested in connection with public unrest. Analysis ...
Human Rights Violations since 2 February 1990 308 One of the earlier known cases of orders given for violence, was that of Piet ‘Skiet’ Rudolph of the Orde Boerevolk who advised – on an internationally distributed video recording in 1990 – that people should “shoot now” at those who ...
THE NAMIBIAN EXTRADITION CASE: APPEALS OF DARRYLE STOPFORTH AND LEONARD VEENENDAL5 6 103. Because similar questions of law were raised in both these appeals, the Supreme Court of Appeal deemed it convenient to deal with them at one and the same time. 104. The court was constituted of five judges, ...
THE KILLING OF RUTH FIRST, JEANETTE CURTIS SCHOON AND KATRYN SCHOON5 9 120. On 30 May 2000, the Amnesty Committee granted amnesty to Messrs Craig Michael Williamson and Roger Howard Leslie Raven for the killing of Ms Ruth First in Maputo on 17 August 1982 and of Ms Jeannette Schoon and her ...
Links with the Inkatha Freedom Party 65. Applications and intelligence documents provide evidence that some IFP members and right-wingers collaborated on a wide front, particularly in efforts to procure weapons. 66. With the formation of the Concerned South Africans Group (COSAG) in 1993, the IFP ...
 
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