RODNEY GOBA KESWA
I am a retired Civil Servant residing at Ibotha Farm, Umzimkulu District.  On the 27th of May, 1981, during my tour of duty as Commander of the Transkei Defence Force, I was arrested and detained in terms of Transkei Security Laws.
 I was subjected to the most sadistic and dehumanising treatment imaginable.  My arrest was reported on the front page of the Sunday Times of 31 May, 1981.  As I will for the first time today give the background to my arrest and torture in detention, it will become clear how nefarious the role which was played by some newspapers in their disinformation campaign to justify the violation of human rights, in the South Africa of the past.  
 Some of the things written  about me in that front page report of the Sunday Times, are distortions of the truth apparently aimed at justifying to the general public, my arrest and detention.
 I pray that this Commission will find time also to look into the reporting of the newspapers, such as the Sunday Times, during the apartheid years.
 After my arrest, I was detained in the police cells in Inqobo.  The cell in which I was locked up, had no lights and had a dreadful stench which at times made me sick.