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Transcripts for Section 6 of Episode 24
| Time | Summary | | | 31:42 | On Monday this past week five senior security policemen applied for amnesty at the Truth Commission. Their application will be heard tomorrow, but again an Attorney-General pulled a surprise move. On Wednesday Pretoria Attorney-General Jan D’Oliveira issued warrants for the arrests of two of them and on Friday they appeared in court charged with the same acts they wanted to confess to next week. The men are former Vlakplaas commander and Northern Transvaal security police chief Brigadier Jack Cronje, Captain Jacques Hechter, Captain Wouter Mentz and Colonel Roelf Venter, all former Vlakplaas operatives and Warrant Officer Paul van Vuuren. They will give evidence about more than forty murders and are expected to directly implicate former president PW Botha, former police minister Louis Le Grange and Generals such as Basie Smit and Johan van der Merwe. Van der Merwe will testify on their behalf. Apart from high profile murder cases like the Pebco Three and Fabian Ribeiro, they will ...more | Full Transcript | | 33:05 | I think there is only one way to go and that is to go to the Commission. We have been treated very well by the Commission. They stand for reconciliation. They want the truth to come out and for the past to be buried. // What is it that you and your team want to tell the Amnesty Committee? // We want to tell them how we worked and for whom. I am really going to tell the whole truth because I think the past must now be put behind us. // Let’s talk about the previous government. Did you get any help or support from them when things started going wrong? // Absolutely nothing. It looks as if De Klerk and his cabinet are just busy back paddling. They want nothing to do with us because they know very well that they are the ones who gave the commands. // There’s a saying in Afrikaans I want to ask you about. Are you ashamed of the past and scared of the future? // I am not ashamed of having been a policeman. I am ashamed of having worked for a system that is forsaking us, that is not ...more | Full Transcript |
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