Special Report Transcript Episode 87, Section 2, Time 11:45

And they did come, more than 7000 of them. Far more than ever expected. But the perpetrators did not come voluntarily. They were drawn to the hot seat of confession by fear of prosecution. In a unique South African compromise the killers, murderers and torturers of the past were offered pardon in return for the whole truth and proof of a political motive. Boy Diale and Christopher Makgale were the first men to ask for amnesty. Both men belonged to the Bafokeng tribe and in 1990 they murdered this old man who belonged to a rival tribe. But the most notorious amnesty applicants were men of a completely different tribe, the apartheid foot soldiers, like these security policemen; the men who ruled whole communities by fear came to confess about their brutality: the torture and murder of activists during the 1980s.

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