Special Report Transcript Episode 33, Section 2, Time 06:46

Another East Cape activist, Siphiwo Mtimkulu and his friend Topsy Madaka, disappeared mysteriously in 1982, shortly after Mtimkulu was released from detention. At the time he was suing Adriaan Vlok, minister of law and order, for thallium poisoning he suffered on his release. The two young men were picked up the Eastern Cape security branch near the Holiday Inn in Port Elizabeth. They were taken to the Post Chalmers police station where they were given drinks spiked with sedatives and then shot. Their bodies were burnt and the remains thrown in the Fish River. Nick van Rensburg and Gideon Niewoudt are both applying for amnesty for their deaths. They are now admitting that they lied. At the Truth Commission hearings last year they used a court interdict to prevent the families of the victim from naming them as perpetrators.

Notes: Siphiwo Mtimkulu; Topsy Madaka; Post Chalmers police station; Fish River