Introducing…World of Secrets – The Apartheid Killer

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Introducing a NEW investigation from the BBC. World of Secrets, season 3: The Apartheid Killer. All the victims were black and the youngest was just 12 years old. Some relatives are still searching for the graves. During a three-year bloodbath in the 1980s, multiple people were killed in the South African city of East London – by one person. After years of investigation, we’ve tracked him down. He killed so many, he lost count. It has been 30 years since the white supremacist apartheid regime crumbled. The unresolved trauma of this time has cast a long shadow across a nation. In piecing together this story, the new season of World of Secrets exposes the disturbed past and racial injustices of South Africa itself.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Michael. I want to tell you about World of Secrets, a BBC podcast where you can hear
0:06.4	major global investigations. Season 3 is a true crime story called The Apartheid Killer.
0:12.8	He shot his victims after dark in South Africa in the 1980s, but only went to jail for 12 years.
0:18.6	You're about to hear a series trailer for The Apartheid Killer.
0:22.1	If you want to hear more, you can search for World of Secrets
0:24.9	wherever you get your podcast. World of Secrets, the stories they don't want told.
0:30.1	Hi, it's Yem Siadekoke here. I'm one of the presenters of the world of secrets,
0:38.0	the BBC podcast that tells major global investigations with gripping storytelling. I've got some big news. Our
0:45.2	production teams have been really busy. We've been making four more seasons of
0:49.7	World of Secrets being released between now and the end of 2024. Stories they don't want told, holding
0:56.9	the powerful to account. Search for World of Secrets wherever you find your BBC podcasts and then follow or subscribe so you get every
1:04.8	season and every new episode automatically. The first of these four seasons is
1:09.5	available now. World of Secrets, the apartheid killer. In the 1980s, In the 1980s, we dispersed in five of the Spanish
1:25.0	was trying.
1:28.0	In the 1980s, on the streets of a South African coastal town called East London, people began disappearing after dark.
1:36.0	Families have spent years, more than that, decades, trying to find their loved ones, the missing.
1:43.0	I used to wait for him outside, sometimes too late.
1:48.0	And I dreamt, they said, no, my son, he will come,
1:51.0	don't worry, he will come.
1:54.0	People were desperate.
1:56.0	We were looking for him, we couldn't find him,
1:59.0	and nobody knew where he was.
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