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Transcripts for Section 4 of Episode 37
| Time | Summary | | | 11:19 | Joe Mamasela was not at the amnesty hearing and he’s not scheduled to appear before the Commission. We asked Amnesty Committee spokesman Cocky Mpshe, why not? // Joe Mamasela is not here and Joe Mamasela may not be here because he is presently what we call a section 204 witness. That simply means he is a state witness attached to the office of the Attorney-General. Now the reason why he is not coming to testify is because he is going to testify on behalf of the state when criminal prosecutions get started by the office of the Attorney-General. Now the position is that if he comes to testify at the amnesty hearings this may be used against him later in a criminal trial and it may be contradictory and be prejudicial to the state’s case in the criminal matters. // Now, ordinary people will ask you, which is more important: the criminal courts or the Truth Commission? // Well I can say both are important because we are dealing with the same people here. Some of the perpetrators may ...more | Full Transcript |
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