Special Report Transcript Episode 54, Section 3, Time 21:53

Your role as an interpreter within the Truth Commission which is a unique role you play is to absorb the emotions and transfer the message which the witness is trying to put across to the Commission and to the nation at large. It is up to you at the end of the day how you deal with those emotions. // You see we do first person interpreting, you put yourself in the shoes of the victim. You don’t say the police took his child away and they brought him the next day and she was feeling very angry. No, you say I was very angry because they took my son away, they brought him back the next day and his body was full of bullet wounds. You know, I went to the mortuary to identify him, I mean those are very touching stories. You get emotional, we are human beings.

Notes: Rev Cloupas Molokwane (Interpreter); Lebohang Mathibela (Interpreter)

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