The Apartheid Killer: 1. Edward’s ghost

World Of Secrets

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Who was Edward and how did he die? His body is exhumed in East London, South Africa. His heartbroken family has waited decades to find out what happened to him. Edward Soenies wasn’t the only one killed in East London after dark in apartheid South Africa in the 1980s. We have spent years investigating. Hosts Ayanda Charlie and Charlie Northcott begin to unravel what happened. They hear from investigative journalist, Isa Jacobsen and Edward’s sister and son, Marlene and Raymond.

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Please note, this season of World of Secrets includes descriptions about death and violence, including torture, which some listeners may find distressing.

Season 3 of World of Secrets is a collaboration with the BBC World Service investigations unit, Africa Eye. Here’s a link to the BBC Africa Eye film, which we recommend you watch after listening to this podcast. You can find it here: https://youtu.be/QPB42_uLLh0 If you are in the UK, you can watch on BBC iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0021dvm

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0:47.0	Before we start this season of World of Secrets includes descriptions about death and violence,
0:53.3	including torture, which some listeners may find distressing.
0:57.8	We're standing in a field in South Africa on the top of a sloping hill.
1:06.0	In front of us is a tangled maze of grasses and overgrown thorns.
1:11.0	Beyond that, a small city and in the distance the Indian Ocean.
1:18.7	The wind is howling. You can hardly hear ourselves speak. The grass is dancing around our feet.
1:25.0	And in the middle of this field is an excavator,
1:28.0	a yellow digger, searching for something beneath the ground.
1:34.0	Men are standing around us with face masks on,
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