South Africa - Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Описание: (25 Nov 1997) T/I: 11:07:15 GS 10:50:20


The Truth Commission holding a week-long hearing on 18 alleged crimes by Winnie Mandela heard testimony on Tuesday (25/11) by one of her former confidantes. Xoliswa Falati told how she took four young men to see Mandela and her bodyguards after telling the former first lady that they had all been sexually abused at a Methodist church home in
Soweto. She said Mandela started to punch one of the four, and then left
her bodyguards to beat them up. One of them was Stompei Seipei who was later killed.
Falati said that she was ordered outside to sing loudly so as to drown out the youths' cries for help. Mandela and Falati were both convicted in 1991 on charges of kidnapping and being an accessory to assault.
Also appearing before the Commission was star witness, Katiza Cebekhulu who said he saw Mandela killing Stompei.

SHOWS:

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA 25/11
0.00 WS Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing convening
0.06 MS audience
0.10 CU Winnie Madikizela-Mandela listening with head on hand
0.14 CU former bodyguard Katiza Cebekhulu
0.18 MCU Winnie and lawyer seated
0.21 MS Cebekhulu and others
0.23 CU lawyer questioning Cebekhulu
0.26 CU Cebekhulu pointing and saying through translator: "I saw her killing Stompie. I'm referring to Winnie."
0.33 CU Winnie shaking her head negatively
0.37 MS people in audience listening intently
0.41 CU Cebekhulu testifying animatedly
0.54 MS former confidant Xoliswa Falati and another woman walking to platform
0.58 CA lawyer asking questions
1.01 English NATSOT Xoliswa Falati: "She (Winnie) dehumanises a person. She reduces a person to nothing. She regards herself as a demigod."
1.10 WS people entering room
1.14 CU Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Commission Chairman
1.16 MCU Winnie and her lawyer conferring

1.19 Vision ends

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