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tv   Witness  LINKTV  October 17, 2020 7:30am-8:01am PDT

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♪ >> i always make sure that the story that i am telling is impactful. always answering the simple question why should people are? this killing, it iss a reflection o of the post aparareid society that is poison.
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♪ [speaking native language] ♪ ♪
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>> good d morning. hi. are yourur are so happy. >> very happy. >> ok. >> you didn't sleep yesterday until 6:00 or 7:00. >> yeaeah. >> i am here tomorrow. [laughter]
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>oth the rereporter on a bureau chief. >> there is a lot happening. today is a big trial kicking off. there is eight people appearing, including a senior police officer who used to work at the c central pice e station. the maiain story here is not on the trial, but i was rececently inin touch with my people there anand there isis a new head man that just moved in l le a month agag it is like a let's wait and see who's next. >> p pitics is securitized. it doesn't matter which party you belong to, , you need to ha a bodyguard. there is other stuff thahat cro
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up as we go along. [inaudible] ♪ > 90, 100.. 256 meagages.. >> i never intended to become a journalist. it was a career that i always tell people, it chose me. >> yeah, we can talk. >> how many people were affect the by this alleged stealing of land? >> i really wanted to stop covering politics to get a sensnse of what it was like if reallyly cut my teeeeth into it. i discoveredike a passssion for
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it that i didn't even know existed. i started breaking cases in when it was literally almost every week that i was covering some murder of a politician. it wasn'n'somethingg that was necessarily getting attention. but then i realized this had to become bigger. people need to know about this. i have worked soso hard to make it part of the national agenda. ♪ ♪
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>> i pray we put it on today. >> yeah. >> when i am done here in 2017, i realizedtrange things seem to happen to cases, dockets going missing, or witnesses acactually ending up being kill in some cases, until the killing of this one. that forced the issue into sharp focus. >> in here. >> i want to ask her if these are her own personal body
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guards or the ones providededy the state. >> what t things can n we talk you about and what can't we talk t to you about? >> i don't want into delve too much intnto the otheher thihis. keepep your mind on the trial. >> the c ces that arare thehere. [inaudiblele] [speaking native language] >> where did they see us?
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[speaking native language] >> they know that you know. > yes. >> two consulates who were in he car on the day he was assassinated. at least the masterminds behind the hits. they have this story for us. [speaking native language] >> then what happened? [speaking native language]
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[speaking g native languguage] >> the people that you believe -- >> yes, we belieieve that they are around us. >> how is that? >> as long as there is still in the mountain in the back. >> in the same e position that you arare in, can you step this way? three, two, one, and rolling. >> t the two consulates have turned town being put in witness protection ahead of trial, saying they refuse to
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abdicate their you duty and the wards they serve. the pair say they still draw strength f from him, and his death was not in vain. ♪ ♪
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>> almost like a visible depiction of the inadequacies or the failures of the state. those remaining people who were killed, and really the thing is who was behind it? [speaking native language] [laughter] >> ok. [speaking native language] >> w wtappened? [speaking native language]e]
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>> what happened? >> 2015. >> what happened? [speaking natitive language]
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[laughter]
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>> i'm very passionate, and i throw myself 110% into whatever i do. but then i did he test sometimes how demanding it is of every aspect of me and my life. there is so much to do, so many storiess to tell. you just never get the rest time that you need. >> thank you. >> are you daylighght? >> no. i will tell you about my houous i am alwayays tired.. even i go to gym, and i am always exhausted. the e other r day i clapsd twic
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one day. >> what do you mean? >> i fainted twicece in one day. they were like do you want to go to a hospital here? no. i would rather go back home. i get t to the doctor's office, and i rititolaly claps at the doctor's office. >> wowow -- a and and i literally claps the doctotor's office. >> d do you think you are writi a book about i it? what i'm looking for is to get a bodyguard who doubleses up as hit man. most of thee bodyguards double up as hit men.. >> it is ann occupational -- >> i don't think we are targets. that is why. >> it cocould be ignorance abou it. . when i was younger, i used to
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have those things. i used to think i would return that. eyey told me you've got to wear the bulletproof vest, and i refused.d. to me it wouould be a sign of weakness. . now that i am older, y you can wear them. ♪ >> it is not easy to ask people to continue to talk about things that hurt them, especially with a case like that. there are still a lot of unanswered questions. you don't want to feel like you are exploiting someone's pain, even though it is through just trying to make sure that the story doesn't die.
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hello? >> [speaking native lananguage] >> i am from newews room, afric. [speaking native language] letter, e.e. all right, bye. > i think the assassination of him is what drove me into things wlike the hell is going on. but there is not one person there. is a much larger context to it, like the deterioration of the moral fiber of the society.
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[speaking native language] >> he was still busy. >> yes, he wasas a busy man. [speaking native language] >> we are missingngim. [speaking native language]
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>> just the basics. and then whatever else i need, i can come back and finish. >> all r right. >> my parents do worry about the risks that come with the job. but i think they have seen the amount of passion that i have. you can't stop me once i have got started. >> and what angle are you looking at? >> the government makes political killings s possible. this created a an environment f people to do that. >> ok, cool. it will feed through the angle
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i was just speaking about. actually it has now become an industry to deal with it that way. >> bye-bye. ♪ > the trifle the so-called cleveland eight has been postponed. i am joined by news from africa's bureau chief horton-tucker is inin studio th afternoon. share with me your experience of covering issues around the violence, the killings at cleveland'ss hostel, and you have been tracking other political killings, inclulung another one. talk to meme about cleveland's itself. > it has now become almost a business, the e business of f killing and d hit m men has bec sororominent bececause o of the hihigh level o unenemployment. >> deathth is alwaysys a heart weight away.
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> literally death is a heartbeat away. this whohole netwowork that is to have involved policeman, said to have involved politicians.s. duduring thehe mission o of i i wewe had heard it t was a place where pololiticians goo s sppin for hit men. the problem is the weapons that are used for these assassinations are not legal. they are not traceable. these weapons are either stolen , or they go back as far as the rmed struggle. >> i'm so tired of the killilin in this province. i don't really get disillusioned. i don't think there is much time for that. sometimes i think i am just going to fall apartment. but i also just t keep going, keep going because you c can't topop.
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you can't start a story like that and just do it half way. ♪
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