Special Report Transcript Episode 72, Section 4, Time 49:12

I wish to comment on crimes committed by security forces. Up to 1994 when I was given the job by the then state president in the TEC, of going into the recommendations and findings of the Goldstone Commission, I never realized what was happening in this country in reality. I had a good idea, but never realized the depth of the deceit to which we were all subject. But at the same time there was no way we could get to the truth without it coming from the inside. There was no way Harms could get to the truth. He was lied to when it came to security matters. We know the system was so much against us that sweepers were used by the security forces to cover-up scenes of murders, people who knew what the prosecutors would be looking for. So when we came we said, well we can’t prove a murder on this evidence. We were deceived; that was part of the system. Thus when you had a death in detention, which we all took seriously and there are instructions in all offices that are to be taken seriously, we could never get to a prosecution because the scenes had been swept.

Notes: Jan d’Oliveira (AG Transvaal)

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