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Transcripts for Section 3 of Episode 37
| Time | Summary | | | 05:18 | Joe Mamasela. Joe Tsele’s sister was not the first witness before the Truth Commission to ask about this man who has admitted to being part of the killing of more than 30 activists. Mamasela was one of the black policemen at Vlakplaas called askaris. So was Brian Ngqulunga. | Full Transcript and References | | 05:38 | Brian Ngqulunga became a problem to his Vlakplaas bosses when suspicion arose that he was working for the ANC. It was also the time of the Harms Commission and Vlakplaas suspected that Brian Ngqulunga might not be prepared to cooperate with the police cover-up. The trouble however began when Brian Ngqulunga asked Eugene de Kock for a transfer from the Vlakplaas unit. | Full Transcript | | 06:02 | Brian Ngqulunga was a frail, pathetic looking person, human being. He took him, he beat him up and when Brian lost consciousness he picked him up, he threw him up in the sky and when Brian landed with this certain thud, he jumped. You know, if you know De Kock, he’s a big guy with a big torso. He jumped several times in the face of Ngqulunga. Ngqulunga told him that he wanted to get out of Vlakplaas, he wanted to go and work at Fortis, at the head office and he didn’t want people to run away from him. Brian was a family friend; he was not just a fellow askari. He was more than that. He was a family friend, I knew him extremely well. You know, he was frail; he drank too much, the whole exposure into the media worked into his mind. He couldn’t take it. He was on the verge of complete breakdown and as a result he shot his wife three times, his pregnant wife. There was a meeting; I think it was the final briefings. It was on Friday because I had to go and testify on Monday. The ...more | Full Transcript | | 08:42 | One of the men selected to kill Brian Ngqulunga was this man, Captain Wouter Mentz. // We put on the balaclavas and ran to the car. We went to Ngqulunga who was sitting on the left of the vehicle. We dragged him out of the vehicle, we wrestled with him a bit and in the wrestling I remember very well that he screamed and said. No Comrades! No Comrades! I’m one of you! I’m one of you! Bellingham fired several shots, I cannot remember how many. To me it sounded as though he had emptied the whole magazine on Brian Ngqulunga and killed him. I cannot remember, but I later heard that Piet Botha had also fired several shots at him with a pistol. I looked away because I could not handle it. I cannot remember exactly how it happened, but it was arranged that he’d be buried at Vlakplaas and his entire family was there and De Kock gave instruction that everyone was to attend the funeral. I simply couldn’t bring myself to attend the funeral. It was too much for me and I just couldn’t be ...more | Full Transcript | | 10:18 | I don’t have any forgiveness. I have no forgiveness for him. | Full Transcript and References | | 10:32 | They killed a lot of askaris; more than six askaris were killed, because in their own language they said these people have out used their usefulness. They have outlived their usefulness. In other words they were not productive and the only way for one to be productive at Vlakplaas is to kill people. Vusi died, he refused to cooperate. Peter died, because he was useless according to them, he outlived his usefulness. Moema died because they just didn’t trust him, he asked too many questions; they killed him. Moses Nthelang was killed. Martin Mpofu died under mysterious circumstances. Uncle Mose died also under mysterious circumstances. | Full Transcript and References |
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