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00:03 Report / Dianne Hawker
00:53 Edgar Mushwana / Cousin of apartheid victim  
01:42 Dianne Hawker / DW Correspondent / Johannesburg
02:52 Lionel Adendorf / Commission of Inquiry spokesman
03:22 Edgar Mushwana / Cousin of apartheid victim 

Script: 

ANCHOR READ  
Did political interference have anything to do with hundreds of apartheid era crimes going unprosecuted in over 27 years?   
That’s the question that a new commission of inquiry in South Africa will have to answer.   
In 1996, The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established after the end of apartheid to help heal the country.  
After public hearings, the commission referred hundreds of Apartheid-era cases for investigation and prosecution.  
But today only a fraction was followed up – leaving the families of victims wondering why nothing has happened.   
D-Ws Dianne Hawker takes a look at South Africa’s unfinished business.   
 
PACKAGE   
Duration: 3:43  
 
00:00 – 00:06 – DW original footage  
Edgar Mushwana knows the pages of this book inside out. (wide - edgar looks at book)  
 
00:06 – 00:21 DW original footage 
It contains the story of how his cousin, Ignatius Mthebule, was disappeared by Apartheid police in 1987 – after meeting a government spy who was posing as a friend.   (closer)  
 
00:21 – 00:34 DW original footage 
SUPER@Edgar Mushwana - Cousin of Apartheid Victim  
“But here she did actually confess to the author, Jonathan, as to what she did. How she caused Iggy to disappear.”  
 
00:34 – 00:53 (Pics of Ignatius on phone – family gave permission to use the images) 
 
Ignatius Mthebule was an ANC underground fighter who helped plan operations against the Apartheid state.  
He was only 32 when he disappeared.  
 
Thirty-eight years later, his family still yearns to know his final resting place.  
 
00:53 – 01:10 SUPER@Edgar Mushwana - Cousin of Apartheid Victim  
“What happened? We just want to be shown that this is where maybe they buried him, so that we can go and take the remains, repatriate them, go and put them where they belong amongst his people. 
 
01:10 – 01:21 AP – Archive Desmond TUTU / Story no: 4347387 
 
01:21 – 01:29 KurzJournal 
After the end of Apartheid, the world watched as South Africa's newly founded Truth and Reconciliation Commission sought answers to human rights violations and offered amnesty to perpetrators who fully disclosed their role.  
 
01:29 – 01:42 AP – Archive Desmond TUTU / Story no: 4347387 
The commission ruled that those who didn’t tell the FULL truth of their involvement in Apartheid crimes would be denied reprieve.  
 
It also found that those who didn’t come forward should face justice.  
 
01:42 – 02:06 SUPER@ Dianne Hawker – Reporting  
PTC: The TRC referred 300 cases for prosecution and many families thought these cases would make their way through the court system.  
But 27 years after the commission closed its files, only HALF of these cases are being considered for investigation and only 14 have made it to court either as inquests or for prosecution.” 
 
02:06 –02:22 DW original footage 
That’s why 25 families - including Ignatius’s relatives – filed a lawsuit to compel the South African President to set up an inquiry into the delay in the investigation and prosecution of the cases. (court exterior)  
 
02:22 –02:28 DW original footage 
Before it went to trial, Cyril Ramaphosa agreed to establish a commission.  
 
02:28 – 02:33 DW original footage 
(theatre - wide)  
This theatre will be the main staging ground for public hearings.  
 
02:33 – 02:42 DW original footage 
The aim? To find out whether senior government officials and politicians stopped the investigations from going ahead.  
 
02:43 – 02:51 DW original footage 
The commission has been given 6 months to complete its work, with the power to compell anyone to appear.  
 
02:51 – 03:13 SUPER@ Lionel Adendorf - Commission spokesman  
“We do have the power to subpoena anyone, including former politicians or current politicians, it is a power and privilege that we would not want to exhaust as the first line of call, but we would want to rely on their conscience and their generosity to contribute immensely to the work that we are set to do” 
 
03:13 – 03: 23 DW original footage 
The families of those affected by Apartheid will be watching the inquiry closely, aware that time is running out.  
 
03:23 – 03:32 SUPER@Edgar Mushwana - Cousin of Apartheid Victim  
“His mother wanted to know. She always wanted to know what happened to her son, and she passed on without knowing.”  
 
03:32 – 03:43 DW original footage 
Many believe that until these cases are finally prosecuted, South Africa will not be able to move on from its Apartheid past.
 
END