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🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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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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0:05.0 | My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC. |
0:08.0 | It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, moments and movements, |
0:14.7 | stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous. |
0:19.1 | And the BBC's position at the heart of British music means we can tell those stories like no one else. |
0:24.6 | We were, are and always will be right there at the center of the narrative. |
0:28.6 | So whether you want an insightful take on music right now or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous |
0:34.2 | and infamous moments in music check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds. |
0:38.6 | Before we start this episode of World of Secrets includes descriptions of violence and torture, |
0:44.4 | which some listeners may find distressing. |
0:50.0 | During our interviews with security guard Louis Van Score, I asked him if he'd ever been afraid |
0:56.7 | when he went into buildings in the dark, alone, hunting the people who'd broken inside. |
1:04.0 | I've been scared in many pots where I went into. |
1:07.0 | I know there was one, a clothing factory. |
1:10.0 | This lady had mirrors all over in the shop for people to be able to see in it. |
1:17.0 | That night, Fonskua grabs his gun and drives up to the clothing factory. |
1:22.0 | He removes his shoes as he enters the building. |
1:25.0 | I went in there and I just had a six sense, somebody inside. |
1:31.0 | His senses are on high alert as he tiptoes through the room full of clothes. He |
1:36.7 | passes row after row of mirrors hanging on the wall, glinting in the moonlight. |
1:42.2 | I was walking down in the moonlight. I was walking down the passage slowly and my eye caught in the mirror a person holding a gun and I turned around a shot. was the time he saw himself in the mirror and shot his own reflection. |
2:07.0 | I shot myself in the mirror. |
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