Special Report Transcript Episode 75, Section 5, Time 49:26

How do we as a society begin to read, now today begin to read, allegations of abduction and murder of a thirteen year old activist from Tumahole? // What we have to ask is what was the purpose of that abduction and what happened during that kidnapping? Well, the fact is that this child was tortured and murdered and that is absolutely unacceptable in moral terms. You know, individuals can’t set themselves up as a tribunal to judge somebody who is allegedly a spy, we can’t accept that kind of behaviour. A tribunal that is set up by a movement may be a different issue, but we’re not talking about that in this situation. So, to equate the affairs that occurred in a household in Soweto with a just tribunal set up by a liberation movement in a foreign country perhaps or even inside the country, something that was actually accepted by the movement. Those two are quite different things and I don’t’ think that we can accept an individual like Winnie Mandela making a decision, or anybody else for that matter, making a decision about whether someone can live or die.

Notes: Interviewer, Gael Reagon; Sheila Meintjes (Political Studies, Wits)

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