Broadcast excerpt·MON, 26 OCT 2026 · 12:17:21–12:18:19 SAST
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TRC cases inquiry. Not quite sure because we've been unable to actually listen while we're on air, but we'll inform you about what has happened there. Now, speaking of the former apartheid era police officer, Eugene Decock says that political office bearers were aware of and involved in crimes committed during the apartheid era. Speaking at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission inquiry, Decock said that he was willing to testify on the
Or against senior officers, but was not given an opportunity to do so. On the 1st of October 1997, I made an appetizer to and gave evidence at the TRC. I said to the TRC that the state has inexplicably declined to pursue the generals and politicians despite their involvement, and that I was sickened by this choice. That was in 1997. It's now 30 years later.
How do you feel about that fact that the generals and the politicians were not pursued? I'll start with saying also that I testified against President P.W. Botha in George. However, how I feel about it today is only my point of view. I was the only connection between the generals and the politicians. The people lower down the ranks didn't have that information. I was the only one.
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