Special Report Transcript Episode 58, Section 3, Time 11:58

It was a more mature Steynberg who appeared before the TRC this week; this time he is no extra. He’s the first death row prison warder to speak out. Steynberg joined the Department of Correctional Services to learn a trade and further his rugby career. Three days after he started working in the prison service he was sent to work in ‘the pot,’ a special section inside the prison where condemned prisoners spent their last seven days of their lives. That day he witnessed his first execution, seven men hanging; an experience which still haunts him.

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