Special Report Transcript Episode 37, Section 7, Time 18:50

… Captain Hechter, Sergeant Van der Westhuyzen and Slang, his name was Danny Sihlale questioned him. We used a gas mask, assaulted him and executed electrical shocks on him to gain information. He was a great ANC activist. He had thrown several petrol bombs in Mamelodi and he was involved in arson and petrol attacks on policemen’s houses. Electrical shocks were also executed on him and it was necessary to gain information from him about his activities and strategies and thereafter he became a source of the police and gave us very important information. // Can I ask the methods which were used as to your interrogation? // It’s a long time ago but if I remember correctly we used a gas mask, we put it over his head and we left the plug in and we denied him oxygen. His hands and feet were tied and we assaulted him several times. We assaulted him with our bare hands and some of the constables involved, we kicked him too. Some of the constables involved assaulted him with the handcuffs. // Would you say that he was severely assaulted? // That is correct. // He has asked me to put to you that he was never a member of the ANC. He was a student activist; he was not an ANC activist. // Do you have proof that he was a member of the ANC? // No, I have no proof that he was a member of the ANC, because all those documents have been destroyed.

Notes: W/O Paul van Vuuren; Roelof du Plessis (Applicant’s counsel); Currin; Currin (Victim’s lawyer)

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