Special Report Transcript Episode 63, Section 4, Time 22:00

The South American state of Chile has a history very similar to ours. It suffered for years under a dictatorship and after democracy was restored it also had a Truth Commission to help it cope with its past. One of Chile’s most important writers and playwrights, who’s also something of a contemporary international philosopher, is Ariel Dorfman. Dorfman visited South Africa recently and I travelled with him. He met with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other Truth Commissioners and he was very moved by his visit to Robben Island. Just before he left the Island he had a conversation with a very interesting man called Gerald Brand. Brand has been living on Robben Island for seven years and he was the last head of the prison. Today he works with some of the people he once guarded in the Robben Island Museum. This is part of their conversation and if you’re wondering about Dorfman’s American accent, he has been living in exile in America for a number of years and he is presently Professor at Duke University in North Carolina.

Notes: Max du Preez

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