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Special Report Transcript Episode 50, Section 4, Time 13:10

I haven’t even reached 12 yet. I wasn’t even in standard five yet. That’s when I became wanted by these people who call themselves the justice system, but we all know that they were the injustice system. In 1987 nearly the whole organisation I represent here today was arrested. I was still on the run, they couldn’t find me. And then what happened was some Boers told people in my organisation they’re not really looking for me, because I was the informer. // And then comrades dealt out their own rough justice. // The first thing that happened, my own brothers hit me over the head with a very heavy object. I still don’t know what it was. I fell down to the ground, my clothes were ripped off, petrol was thrown over me and I was set alight by my own brothers who I believed in. // Moegamat was saved by a priest, but a few months later at 14 he was detained under section 29. // After 10 days in Macassar police cells I tried to commit suicide by hanging myself with my tracksuit pants.

Notes: TRC testimony: Moegamat Williams; Reporter; Moegamat Williams; Reporter; Moegamat Williams

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a piece of legislation created to allow for indefinite detention for the purposes of interrogation. Detainees were held in solitary confinement. Many detainees were tortured while held under section 29. See states of emergency.
During 1986 special police units were established to investigate incidents of violent protest activities. One of the Cape Town units gave specific attention to the ongoing protest activity in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town. The unit was responsible for extensive torture of members of the Bonteheuwel ...
 
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