Special Report Transcript Episode 27, Section 2, Time 16:22

This April Charity Kondile told the Truth Commission about the disappearance of her son, Sizwe in 1981. The first time Dirk Coetzee heard the name Sizwe Kondile was in London in 1989. During lengthy debriefing by the ANC it became clear that Kondile had been one of Coetzee’s nameless victims. This week Sizwe Kondile’s family listened to the grizzly details of how he’d met his death. // I supplied the knock out drops too. I can’t remember which of his men administered it. Now, drops were administered to Sizwe Kondile in a drink whilst we were sitting around drinking ourselves, opening beer and whatever other drinks, alcohol. One of Major Archie Flemington’s men, a sergeant or a warrant, a slender built tallish man, light hair took a makarov pistol with a silencer on and whilst mister Kondile was lying on his back shot him on top of the head. There was a short jerk and that was it. The four junior non-commission officers Paul van Dyk, sergeant Jan from Col Nick van Rensburg’s branch and the two Ermelo men each grabbed a hand and a foot, put it onto the pile of tyre and wood, poured petrol on it and set it alight. Now, of course during the burning of a body to ashes takes about seven hours. It is a … whilst that happened, we were drinking and even having a braai next to the fire. Now that I don’t say to show our braveness I just tell it to the Commission to show the callousness of it and to what extremes we have gone in those days.