Special Report Transcript Episode 67, Section 2, Time 01:15

Siphiwo Mtimkulu. The young student leader who turned into a ghost, who turned into ashes. But this week was the start of the great telling of one of apartheid’s most heinous crimes. Four security policemen, two generals and two colonels faced the nation to unravel the secrets surrounding the deaths of Eastern Cape student leader Siphiwo Mtimkulu and his friend Topsy Madaka. General Gerrit Erasmus who gave the order for the killing; General Nick van Rensburg, a multiple killer who assassinated one of the young men; Colonel Hermanus du Plessis, co-conspirator; and Colonel Gideon Niewoudt, also a multiple killer, torturer and liar who fired his bullet into the other activist. For many years these killer policemen denied any complicity in torturing, kidnapping or killing Mtimkulu or Madaka.