Special Report Transcript Episode 42, Section 2, Time 23:16

Mashikane said the townships are sitting full of informers that want to be integrated into the communities and we don’t provide them with the opportunity. // In this proper context, can I just indicate the process that we possibly will follow? One, we will subpoena these people, because there’s public outcry. Speaking for myself, I think it is totally relevant for purposes of that amnesty application. But there’s another public outcry, we’re a public institution, we must respond to the demands of the public. We’ll subpoena these people. They’ll come in. Let’s say they say we are not going to disclose those names. Then we are going to invoke section 21 of the Act, compelling them. That’s also very dicey, incidentally, but I am not going into the logistics of that. We’ll compel them and assuming they say six of the names are so and so, so and so, that will not be the end of the story. I will then have to say. If you say Mandela was your informer, just tell me the date when, give me the whole history that why you say this is so. And thereafter I would have to make those names available first to Mandela and say, this is what is being said about you, that you are an informer. Can you imagine if Jack Cronje calls 19 people in support of the fact that Mandela is an informer, Mandela calls 50 more people, and where are we? Where’s the process?

Notes: Antjie Samuel; Dumisa Ntsebeza

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