Dispatches · SEASON 4
Apartheid's Assassins
Episode 14 · 1990-04-04
- Documentary
- News
Episode overview
Over the years many political activists have been murdered in strange circumstances, but security denied that special 'hit squad' units were responsible. Then Captain Dirk Coetzee, ex-commander of one of these units, fled the country and told his story to the ANC, in extensive interviews Coetzee explains the functioning of the special units. The video also reconstructs attacks carried out against Zimbabwean anti-apartheid campaigners.
45 minutes
Season 4 episodes
1. The Plunderers1990-01-03
2. When Porton Pays the Piper1990-01-10
3. Gamma Alarm1990-01-17
4. The Great Leap Backwards1990-01-24
5. Miracle Molecule1990-01-31
6. Degrees for Sale1990-02-07
7. Stalin's Ghost1990-02-14
8. Troubled Waters1990-02-21
9. Beyond the Rubicon1990-02-28
10. A Greater Germany1990-03-07
11. Gerry1990-03-14
12. Legalise It!1990-03-21
13. In the Name of Hunger1990-03-28
14. Apartheid's Assassins1990-04-04
15. Terms for Peace1990-04-11
16. The Children of Fire1990-04-18
17. The Russians A Coming1990-04-25
18. The Most Neglected Crime1990-05-02
19. The Great Green Hype1990-05-09
20. Romanian Roulette1990-05-16
21. A Tale of Two Cartels1990-05-23
22. Dispatches (30/05/1990)1990-05-30
23. The Stasi Tapes1990-06-06
24. The AIDS Catch1990-06-13
25. Eritrea: Fight to the Death1990-06-20
26. Game on the Ice1990-06-27
27. Guinness - The Inside Story1990-09-26
28. Listen to the Children1990-10-03
29. Rivers of Fire1990-10-10
30. Bad Meat Trail1990-10-17
31. The Oregon Formula1990-10-24
32. Black and Blue1990-10-31
33. Moscow's Mafia Millions1990-11-07
34. Kingmaker of Karachi1990-11-14
35. Divided She Falls?1990-11-21
36. A Good and Faithful Servant1990-11-28
37. The Case Against War1990-12-05
38. Against the Odds1990-12-12
39. The Prozac File1990-12-19
