VAN WYK, Pedro

Age 18

Description
A UDF activist who was tortured and severely beaten while in detention by a named member of the SAP in Beaufort West, Cape, in 1983 during political protests against the Tricameral Parliament elections. Mr Van Wyk was detained in Williston, Cape, for three months in 1989 where he was assaulted by members of the SAP at various Karoo police stations. In July 1990 he was again assaulted by policemen and detained for a month.

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report Glossary

Transcript of episode 71, section 2, starting at: 03:52

Pedro had a letter with the names of his contacts in Lesotho. Benzien wanted those names, badly. // I was given instructions to carry a letter which I should not open until such time as I’d cross the Lesotho border and then I would find out who these people were and where I was supposed to meet ...

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Transcript of episode 71, section 2, starting at: 02:58

But when the interrogation started, Benzien and Nortje were present. They were the only other people in the room with me and when they started interrogating me the intimidation had already taken effect. This intimidation of me had already started when I was in this room and the security policeman ...

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Transcript of episode 71, section 2, starting at: 01:44

... men responsible for putting them behind bars. They now admit that their secret tool, the mechanism for their success, was torture. MK cadre Niclo Pedro was arrested in August of 1987 on his way to Lesotho and taken to this unit’s headquarters at Culemborg in Cape ...

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