Special Report Transcript Episode 5, Section 3, Time 12:32

In Cape Town a court is sitting. The lawyers representing Jan du Preez and Nick van Rensburg have filed application that Mrs. Mtimkulu must not climb that podium. We are waiting for the judgement to come anytime this morning and we have been ordered that we wait until the judgement comes. That shows the difficulty that we are facing as this Commission. // For some time the Truth Commission proceedings are disrupted as angry youth demand to hear the Mtimkulu’s. // Let us ask the Truth Commission to come back to Port Elizabeth, as soon as possible, we can give them five days or so, but then the credibility of the Truth Commission is what we must protect at the moment because you are correct, we are all angry about what they are trying to do, but they are going to try. Those guys, Niewoudt, they are abusing the very constitution you fought for, I fought for. // A number of people in this hall are angry that this process is being delayed again. They would have preferred that Mr. and Mrs. Mtimkulu are given a chance to tell their story. Those perpetrators who are named own up to what they’d done, or deny what they have not done, and the process of healing begins as speedily as possible. And I want to emphasise that the three parties involved here: we on this side of the table, the leaders of the community, the family of Mrs. Mtimkulu have all agreed on this proposal that would supply all that is required for a hearing to be held in this hall specifically to deal with the Mtimkulu matter sometime during the month of June.

Notes: Commissioner, TRC hearing; Youth protesting ; Mkhuseli; Commissioner

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