Sowetodag, het ons dit in die nuuskantoor genoem, \u201cPierre, vat vir Johan en gaan doen die storie\u201d, kom die opdrag van die nuusredakteur. Johan Steyn kon toor deur \u2018n lens, en soos alle SAUK TV-nuuskameramanne kon hy die hel uit \u2018n Peugeot 504 ry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek het in 1977 by TV-nuus ingestap, dieselfde jaar wat ek klaar geswot het in Bloemfontein. Pas die vorige jaar was Soweto nog in vlamme, toe Suid-Afrika se politieke landskap onherroeplik verander is oor die studente-opstand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle was drie swaargewigte in die SAUK se topbestuur: Jan van Zyl, Kobus Hamman en Sakkie Burger. Al drie Broederbonders, maar hierdie feit was die laaste ding in my kop toe ek myself ongenooid in Van Zyl se kantoor in die ho\u00eb gebou in Henleystraat, Auklandpark gaan voorstel het met die vae plan om dalk as TV-nuusman \u2018n werk te kry. Hulle peper my met vrae. \u201cHoe sal jy as verslaggewer \u2018n opstand weergee?\u201d vra Hamman. \u201cIs jy objektief?\u201d kom dit dit van Van Zyl? \u201c\u201dKan jy gebalanseerd verslag doen?\u201d is Burger se vraag. Burger, die broer van Staal Burger van Brixton-moord- en-roof, soos ek spoedig sou agterkom. \u201cJy moet net een ding besef, en dit is dat dit verantwoordelikheid verg om \u2018n storie te dek wat miljoene mense se lewens direk raak\u201d, word dit by my ingeprent. Ek stem met alles saam, belowe plegtig ek sal die waarheid en net die waarheid laat se\u00ebvier as hulle my sou aanstel\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/span>Ek het dikwels in Soweto gekom vir stories. Hier was \u2018n skool beskadig, daar was \u2018n vlagpaal met die vlag van die ou Suid-Afrika afgesaag. Nou en dan was daar op dagga en Mandrax-tablette op beslag gel\u00ea\u2026 maar daar was deurentyd politieke ondertone. Die pot was aan die kook\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16 Junie 1978. Die Regina Mundi-kerk, Rockville, Soweto. Ek en Roger Harris van CNN is die enigste twee wit gesigte. Steyntjie het prontuit ges\u00ea hy laat hom nie vermoor nie. Dit sing en dans en skree en fluit. Die woede in die lug is tasbaar. Woede teen die wit heerskappy, teen Bantoe-opvoedig, teen die paswette. En ja, woede teen die Boer en sy taal, Afrikaans. Vandag s\u00ea ontleders soos professor Willie Estyerhuysen die ANC het die jeug in 1976 gebruik en dikwels misbruik vir hul eie politieke gewin. Op Monitor vertel Herold Pakendorf op 17 Julie 2016 dat een van die grondoorsake vir Soweto 1976 eintlik die verhoging van bustariewe in die Vaaldriehoek was. Maar toe was dit ek en Soweto\u2026In Regina Mundi is daar \u2018n priester in \u2018n purper gewaad op die verhoog. Hy is die compare<\/em> maar eintlik die aanhitser. \u201cAmandla!\u201d dreun dit dat dir kerkbalke antwoord gee. Die aanhitser maak \u2018n skaars-merkbare gebaartjie met sy kop. Vir \u2018n oomblik stop die gejil. Hulle gryp vir Roger Harris, ruk sy televisiekamera uit sy hand en pluk die films uit. Hulle boender hom by die deur uit. Nou is dit my beurt. Ek staal my teen die oormag. Ses fris jong mans druk my teen die kerkmuur vas. \u201cWe are in doubt about your identity\u201d, vertel die hoofinduna my terwyl hy na my SAUK-TV ID-kaartjie met my foto op wys. Die bewyse teen my is verdoemend. Ek werk vir die propoganda-arm van die regering, die onderdrukker. \u201cGet out now if you want to stay alive\u201d, beveel hy my. Onder luide toejuiging takel hulle my toe en marsjeer my by by die deur uit, stamp my in Mkizistraat in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ek skat ek was gelukkig. In daardie dae was Soweto \u2018n geweldadige plek. Nie \u2018n plek waar \u2018n wit joernalis sommer sy gesig sou wys nie. Buite die kerk sit ander verslaggewers veilig in hulle karre, toegesluit, om die gebeure van \u2018n afstand dop te hou. Ek klim in die Citizen se voertuig. Chris Olckers en ek was bevriend. Hy stop my \u2018n bier in die hand. \u201cVertel, Pierre.\u201d Chris maak sy notas. *<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nou borrel die massas uit die kerk. Hulle is kwaad. Hulle soek bloed. Soweto verval in \u2018n see van anargie. Casspirs, honde, traanrook en klippe. Sommer baie. Malende histeriese mense. Tonele soos in Apocalypse Now<\/em> speel hulle voor ons af.. \u201cWhy are you rioting?\u201d waag ek dit aan \u2018n groep gillende jong meisies. \u201cWe want our land!\u201d kom die antwoord. Ek het toe al begin wonder of alles werklik oor Afrikaans gegaan het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAlle lede van die media verlaat die gebied nou\u201d, bulder \u2018n polisieluidspreker die volgende oomblik. In Afrikaans en Engels. Alles gebeur geweldig vinning, maar tog voel dit asof ek binne-in \u2018n rolprent staan wat teen stadige aksie gespeel word. Langs my loei \u2018n sirene, \u2018n polisieman in kamoefleerdrag skop \u2018n deur oop. \u2018n Hond, \u2018n Duitse herdershond, blaf skerp en aggressief. Seth Mazubuko vertel later dat die eerste wese wat in 1976 geweldadig gesterf het, \u2018n polisiehond was wat die skare doodgeslaan het\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ek het Soweto nie dadelik ontruim nie, was dalk te oorywerig in die uitvoering van my pligte. \u201cJy\u2019s onder arres!\u201d Vir die tweede keer daardie dag word ek gegryp, die keer deur polisiehande. Hulle prop my voor in hulle voertuig. Daar is \u2018n lid langs my, nog een agter my. Die man agter my druk die loop van sy aanvalswapen teen my agterkop vas. Die adrelalien pomp. Hulle neem my na die Protea-polisiekantoor. Daar is wit en swart polisiemanne op \u2018n gereedheidsgrondslag. Hulle ondervra my. Maar ek hou een troefkaart. Ek ken Brigadier Jan Visser. Visser het die SAP se eerste amptelike Direktoraat van Openbare Betrekkinge gestig. Ek ek het Jan Visser op TV geplaas met \u2018n onderhoud. Dit was my redding. 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