The Apartheid Killer: 3. The killing machine

World Of Secrets

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The making of mass murderer Louis van Schoor. The “apartheid killer” was part of a system which enabled the shootings as “justifiable homicide”. As we investigate one of his most horrific crimes, we begin to expose the web of lies surrounding the killings and ask: how were they covered up?

Since this episode was recorded, it has been announced that Louis van Schoor died, on 25 July 2024. There will be more about this later in the series. This was a four-year investigation and the interviews with Louis van Schoor were recorded in 2022 and 2023.

Please note, this episode of World of Secrets includes descriptions of violence and 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: 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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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:34.0	Before we start, this episode of World of Secrets
0:37.0	includes descriptions of violence and torture,
0:40.0	which some listeners may find distressing.
0:48.8	During our interviews with security guard Louis Van Score,
0:52.1	I asked him if he'd ever been afraid when he went into buildings in the dark, alone, hunting the people who'd broken inside.
1:00.0	I've been scared in many pots where I went into.
1:02.9	I know there was one, a clothing factory.
1:06.0	This lady had mirrors all over in the shop for people to be able to see in that.
1:13.0	That night, Fonskur grabs his gun and drives up to the clothing factory.
1:18.3	He removes his shoes as he enters the building.
1:21.3	I went in there and I just had a six sense, somebody inside.
1:27.0	His senses are on high alert as he tiptoes through the room full of clothes.
1:32.0	He passes row after row of mirrors hanging on the wall,
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