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On November 11, former Security Police Officer Colonel Gideon Nieuwoudt, while applying for amnesty during a Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing, confessed to participating in the beating, robbery, and murder of the Pebco Three.

According to his testimony, Nieuwoudt lured the three men by having a paid police informant pose as a British embassy official interested in providing a cash donation to Pebco call Sipho Hashe at his home.

The informant convinced Sipho and his two friends to come to the airport to pick up the donation.

( Nieuwoudt later refused to name the informant for fear of his safety.

) The three men were apprehended by members of the Security Police and taken to an abandoned police station on a farm at Post Chalmers, near Cradock.

They were then interrogated, stripped of their possessions, beaten, sedated, and finally strangled.

The bodies were burned and the remains were thrown into the nearby Fish River.