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Transcripts for Section 2 of Episode 9
| Time | Summary | | | 01:04 | By the 1960s the repression that resulted after then after the banning of the ANC and the shooting of people at Sharpeville, you know, covered the whole country. And, at this time they began whole scale arrests of opponents of apartheid, and repression was really all round. | Full Transcript and References | | 01:36 | Eighty year old Elias Molatseli was a school principle when he was arrested in 1978. // On that particular morning the police came in and they wanted my identity document I gave them. And they started searching the house, and they found a book called Up from Slavery that was written by T Washington who was a principle at the Tuskegee College. They took that book and they said, get out of this house, because you are a terrorist. You are teaching at Kroondraai School. What are you teaching those children? Are you teaching them terrorism? And they came out with something from that room and they said look at this. They had Steve Biko’s portrait. His hands were handcuffed and they showed me the picture. They said look at this, it’s from inside your house. They said those were the three items they found unacceptable in my house: Steve Biko’s photo, the letter that I wrote to the secretary of Bantu education complaining. I was asking him to intervene, I was asking him to see how the ...more | Full Transcript and References | | 03:27 | After the upheavals of 1976 many of the younger generation left the country. Some of them like Mpho Mashoeng never returned alive. // The report said they were found dead in a forest in Swaziland. But the death certificate that we got was that the body was riddled with bullets. They said they found the body, and the body was decomposed and she could only identify him by his haircut. So then they had to come back to Bloemfontein to prepare for the funeral. | Full Transcript and References | | 04:14 | For those who stayed behind in South Africa the late eighties was a time of confusion and conflict between those in the struggle and those perceived to be sell-outs. Metabo Mantsunyane was a member of the Dikwankwetla party in QwaQwa. The comrades branded her a traitor and burnt her house three times. // After they’ve burnt my house we went to the police station and the police came and they took photos. They went all around the house, they took photos, they saw everything that was burnt to ashes and they asked me whether do I know those people. And I said to them no I do not know the people. But there was a boy who used to come and help me at home. I’d send him to go and fetch me water with a barrel and he told me, he whispered to me who the people were. And the police were also there at the time he was telling this story. I regretted the fact that I took his name to the police, because he was severely assaulted and he had to run away from his home. | Full Transcript and References | | 05:26 | But sometimes it was an ANC comrade who was hunted down by the other side. In 1989 Mosala Moiloa died at the hands of a mob. // When this mob came, this very same Dikwankwetla. mob, they tore the shack apart because they were looking for my brother. When my brother came out they chopped his head with a panga. My brother tried to run away but he fell on the street. Each and every one of them wanted to take his part or to make his share, then they started stabbing him. | Full Transcript and References | | 06:15 | A further problem in the Free State in the eighties was the existence of gangs like the Eagles in Brandfort and the Three Million Gang in Kroonstad. These gangs were devised and trained by the military. // In 1990, it was on a Friday when he died. He was at work. He was killed by the Three Million Gang. // Do you know why the Three Million Gang killed your son? // He used to tell me that the Three Million Gang used to accuse him of being active in the ANC. He thought he was a better leader. | Full Transcript and References | | 07:11 | It was a group of people who were violating the community. It was a group of hooligans who were attacking people and they got my husband and stabbed him to death. When we got there we got the Three Million Gang. I saw him; he had been attacked by the Three Million Gang. When I tried to tell him the blood splattered on my face. I asked him what was happening but he could not answer me. He was bleeding profusely. I tried to shake him to wake him up. There was nobody to help me there, I was all by myself. I called onto my children to come and help me. | Full Transcript and References |
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