Special Report Transcript Episode 69, Section 3, Time 15:23

That is why I said earlier that it wasn’t a great day for reconciliation but as Brigadier Mofokeng pointed out the Truth Commission is the forum to vent this kind of frustration. On to the men in blue. It is probably safe to say that the majority of human rights violations committed the last three decades were the work of members of the former South African Police Force. Several former police generals and some of their high ranking subordinates appeared before the Commission to explain their role during especially the turbulent 1980s. First to testify was General Johan van der Merwe, South Africa’s last apartheid police commissioner.

Notes: Max du Preez