Special Report Transcript Episode 49, Section 2, Time 10:02

The fact that people and especially a young child lost their lives in this incident is something which will stay with me till the day of my death. I’m sorry that such a thing had to happen and today I realize that if the government of the day had started on the road of negotiations at a much earlier stage, incidents such as these would never have taken place.

Notes: TRC testimony: Douw Vermeulen (Ex-policeman)