Special Report Transcript Episode 51, Section 3, Time 19:14

What the ANC has done is they have made available to us a report, which was a commission of inquiry report done on the matter of Thami Zulu. Now there are a number of stories that are floating around, there’s a story that possibly he was an informer, there’s the story that he might have died of AIDS, there’s also the story that he could have died because of the bad treatment he was given while in exile. Thami of course represents a very … there’s a soft spot because Thami was one of our ‘76 people who went into exile and he was well-known as a commander of a unit operating in the KwaZulu-Natal area and so we want to unravel the circumstances relating to Thami’s death. We are in the process of an investigation, we’re preparing subpoenas in respect of witnesses for Thami’s matter and I think that once we have dealt with all those subpoenas we will be able to give a more fuller picture of the circumstances relating to Thami’s death. I think that it’s fair to say that initially the ANC thought that he was an informer. I’m not so sure that at the end of the process they were convinced, but we think of all of that as allegations still and we are conducting our own inquiries and our own investigation into this matter.

Notes: Yasmin Sooka (Truth Commissioner)

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