Special Report Transcript Episode 29, Section 3, Time 19:30

General JJ Viktor is a much decorated South African policeman with 45 years of service behind him. Amongst other achievements he founded the base at Vlakplaas in 1979. In September 1992 he was head of the Ciskei Police Force. // My men and I don’t reflect on the CDF. I was not their commander. My men didn’t fire one shot. As a policeman we all expected the crowd to go into the stadium, and some leader or leaders decided no, we’ll do it differently. // General you told us that people must choose their leaders. Just in the way you’ve demonstrated your callousness, your coldness and insensitivity, shows us the kinds of leaders that the South African government chose to head its important departments and the strategies they used to ensure that those kinds of leaders are transported to the homeland governments. // The personal attack on me, I think you are being protected here by the Act. To tell me that I’m callous, that I’m cold, I don’t think my wife would like that.

Notes: TRC testimony: Gen Johannes Jacobus Viktor (Ciskei Police Commissioner); Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (Human Rights Violations Committee)