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Transcripts for Section 5 of Episode 30
| Time | Summary | | | 32:16 | At seemingly endless mass funerals politicians were quick to lay the blame in front of a single door. | Full Transcript | | 32:25 | ‘The IFP stands for ‘I’m for peace.’ What a laugh. The people of Natal who had been dying since 1983 when the UDF was created had been painting up on the … walls in tegranny and Pietermaritzburg ‘IFP = Inkatha fears progress.’’ | Full Transcript | | 32:57 | But the answers are not that simple. At that time South Africa was uneasily edging towards a negotiated settlement in the world trade center in Kempton Park. Only a few kilometers away the Vusimuzi hostel served as a springboard for vicious attacks on the community. It was not an isolated case. In the hostels across the East Rand there originated what became simplistically known as black on black violence. Allegations of a third force, so often denied by the then government, turned out to be a fact. And because the hostels were often isolated from the communities it was from here that this third force, aided by the South African Police, could operate with impunity. One of the functions of the violence was to derail the negotiation process. The other was to make a point to the international community. | Full Transcript | | 33:52 | If you follow the politics of South Africa it is said that a black man won’t rule and by ‘black on black violence,’ as they were calling it, when they clash one would assume that how are they going to rule themselves when they clash like this? | Full Transcript | | 34:13 | But for those who got trampled underfoot in what will be remembered as perhaps the most vicious and underhand face of political repression this country has seen the past is a bewildering and inexplicable country. | Full Transcript |
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