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Special Report Transcript Episode 5, Section 2, Time 00:25

For 14 years the mother has waited for this day. To tell the world of the policeman who had tortured her son before he finally disappeared. This morning, Elizabeth Mtimkulu is going to the Truth Commission. // I am thanking God that this day has come. That’s what kept me … // She and her husband Sipho are armed with a set of diaries Siphiwo Mtimkulu wrote in detention. It tells the story of a gang of Eastern Cape security policemen who savaged and brutalised the young man. // Although he is dead he can still talk. He is talking now. I’m glad about that.

Notes: Siphiwo’s mother; Elizabeth Mtimkulu ; Voiceover; Elizabeth Mtimkulu

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Was one of two ANC members abducted by the Eastern Cape Security Branch in Port Elizabeth on 14 April 1982. They were given a drink containing a sedative and shot in the head. Their bodies were placed on a pile of branches, doused with diesel and then set alight. Their remains were allegedly thrown ...
 
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