SAM, Benjamin

Young Benjamin Oliphant was constantly on the run from police. In December 1986 he was betrayed by a police informer, he was arrested. When his family went to look for him at the Klerksdorp police station, they were told that he had already been released. On their way home, they saw something which ...

... // High Command: // Willie Nkonyeni // Raymond Fihla // Willie Zweni // Mpazamo Yonana // Andile Ntabeni // David Phillips // Mandla Mlangeni // Samuel Motau // Letlapa Mphahlele // Matlabase Matlala // Vuma Ntikinca // Rocky Dlova // J Chintsela Bongwana // Boy Boy Mbethe // David Kongwane // ...

... five days before he died and reported that he found no evidence of abnormality or pathology. Neither his report nor that of chief district surgeon Benjamin Tucker mentioned the bruises to Biko’s face, chest, ankles and wrists. They could also not explain their failure to identify the brain ...

... the job they gave me was as a medical officer in the District Surgeon’s office in Port Elizabeth. And my bosses there were Doctors Ivor Lang and Benjamin Tucker of Steve Biko infamy. Port Elizabeth, 1985 was a nightmare. It was the year of the Langa massacre, of the death of the Cradock Four, ...

... medical certificate stating that he’d found no evidence of abnormality on the patient. The following day in the presence of his superior, Doctor Benjamin Tucker, Doctor Lang again examined Biko, this time while Biko lay on a mat soaked with urine. ...

Three of the men who were ordered to kill at the Heidelberg Tavern that evening in December 1993 say now they planned to strike a much harder blow with more casualties than the four bodies that were carried out into the night.

Let’s move to Cape Town for the last evidence by the five policemen whose amnesty applications have served before the Truth Commission’s Amnesty Committee the last few weeks. Together, they killed at least 65 people in the name of the apartheid state. We’ll tell you about 21 of these murders ...