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Transcripts for Section 5 of Episode 23
| Time | Summary | | | 35:58 | Sipho Mutsi knew that beating and torture were in store for him. What he couldn’t know was that this time the [inaudible] than routine. // On this day, the 4th of May, it was just after breakfast, I saw comrade Sipho passing by the door. It was this steel door. The door was still open but the burglar door was closed. Comrade Sipho passed and he greeted me. We used to call each other by names. He used to say I’m ‘Malapropism’ and I used to call him ‘Mister No Problem.’ As I was standing at the door, because we’d been in the cells for quite some time, he passed and he greeted me by the name I’ve just mentioned and I greeted him back. And I could see he was handcuffed at the back. // When the police were taking me from my cell they said I should come and see what is happening to Sipho. He had a cut beneath his chin. The time when I was in there Sithole took the sjambok and hit him. Sipho seemed to be the person who was already beaten before I arrived. One of the policemen ...more | Full Transcript and References | | 38:26 | I heard him screaming. The windows that I used to peep through to see what is happening. I could hear his voice. I knew his voice very well. And I looked at that box, CID box, and then I saw them moving up and down and then I realized Sipho is still in there, they are busy with him, brutalizing him there. And that made me very angry. I tried to come again to the door but it was not helping. | Full Transcript | | 38:58 | And they kicked Sipho. Then Sithole began to hit him with a sjambok because Sithole said Sipho tried to burn his house. When I was still there we didn’t agree that allegation what Sithole made, that we were trying to burn his house. Then they ordered us to go out of the cell. I was taken to cell number 3 in that police station. And I believe it’s after two days that a certain lawyer called Richard Spoor, he was in the firm of Priscilla Janna. Then he asked me, do I know that Sipho has died. I was affected. Then I said I don’t believe that Sipho has died. | Full Transcript | | 40:04 | Afterwards police tried to claim that Sipho had died as a result of injuries sustained during an epileptic fit. // I said to them, you are lying. You assaulted him, you murdered him, just after you arrested him and I’m going to meet you at the court. // But the inquest found that no one was to blame for Mutsi’s son’s death. | Full Transcript | | 40:28 | I enjoyed my friendship with him a lot and I believe that if he were alive today he would actually be one of the most senior leaders in our community. | Full Transcript |
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