The apartheid police assassins enjoyed doing their gruesome jobs and were never punished for it

SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY 

AT THE MERCY OF EVIL MEN: THE THINGS THEY DID TO US WERE UNGODLY AND HUMANLY UNIMAGINABLE.

The apartheid police assassins enjoyed doing their gruesome jobs and were never punished for it.

I have personally been there. The hopelessness of being alone and surrounded by 5 huge rugby player-type professional killers and psychos in a dark “interrogation room”, with a bright light shining in your face, blinding you, is traumatic. I always expected to be strangled from behind...you could feel them breathing down your neck to intimidate you.

These cowardly killers, with dark hoods to hide their faces, and speaking in Afrikaans, putting words in your mouth while accusing you of lies reported to them by their treacherous black spies and informants.

When you walked under killer police escort to the 10th floor of the Security Police at the John Vorster Square in Jo’burg, you said your last prayers. You never expected to come out of there alive- this 10th floor is where many notable activists were murdered, like Ahmed Timol, Matthew Mabelane and many other activists.

I saw them all, their “interrogation rooms”, at Protea, Orlando, Moroka and Meadowlands Police Stations in Soweto. I (and my siblings) left for exile because I knew that these killers were closing in, it was just a question of time. 

These killers enjoyed their bloody craft. In addition to severe beatings, electric shocks, poisonings, burnings with cigarettes and other heinous methods of torture, they “roasted people alive” in an open pit coal fire (like a barbecue) until they were cremated after 9 to 10 hours. Drinking beer and laughing while they were doing this.

I would not wish these encounters on my worst enemy....can’t continue..too painful to remember. Bad nightmares till today.

Lest we forget that fighting apartheid was no Sunday afternoon picnic....it was hell on earth.

Kunu Matima

**We expected to die, sooner or later. This is what our martyrs suffered to free South Africa.

DISGUSTING PHOTO: Apartheid killer police Captain Jeffrey Benzien demonstrates how they tortured detained activists, handcuffed behind their backs, until they died.

Among the detainees Jeffrey Benzien murdered was Ashley Kriel. I will write a post about this crime.

I remember that the hoods they put over the prisoner’s head were often wet, making it hard to breathe.

Kunu Matima

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