S4E4: portraits of truth - a black afrikaner

The End of Apartheid - South Africa’s Human Spirit

"I am a victim. Victim. Victim." These words resonated throughout Joe Mamasela's public testimony. And the amnesty audience acknowledged his blackness by cheering him on. Mamasela insisted that he was a double victim of the ANC and the apartheid police. This is what he told the Amnesty Committee: "The ANC murdered my brother. I had to identify his charred and semi-decomposed remains. And then I knew, I had to avenge his death." But in front of the audience with ANC supporters, Joe Mamasela did not elaborate. Darren Taylor reports.

Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/portraitsright.htm#black

portraits of truth - former vlakplaas askari joe mamasela and former liberation icon winnie madikizela-mandela as enigmas

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