Special Report Transcript Episode 7, Section 3, Time 13:51

Williams says his experience in ANC camps has left him scarred. // I want to remember this, and it would be hazy and my head would feel like cracking, you understand? Sometimes it would be like I’m losing my mental capabilities. // This is probably why he struggled to relate his story to a rather impatient Truth Commission. // I am a very determined person. When I stand for a principle I stand for it, I don’t think anybody or any one …[interrupted] … that’s why I was able to survive till this point … [interrupted] … and that’s why the system couldn’t break me, including the African National Congress itself. // Can you switch off that side please, Mister Williams you are well protected, we have afforded you a longer time than any witness that has come before us up to this stage. We wish that you bear in mind that there are six more witnesses which we still have to take. Could you please in summary form, as the person is asking you, who is leading you, give us human rights violations which were done to you by the ANC on those camps, and give us your requests to the Commission. // I said, as a mutineer we were rounded up and were put in a concentration camp protection please. // Teddy Williams was obstinate. The Truth Commission was the only way for him to tell his story. // It’s for instance in a village where there’s a single shop. Where you’ve got no other alternative except far away in town usually you frequent that village store.

Notes: Williams; TRC testimony: Teddy Williams; Bongani Finca (Commissioner) Teddy Williams interviewed

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