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BBC Africa Eye - The Apartheid Killer (2024)


BBC Africa Eye - The Apartheid Killer (2024)

During a three-year bloodbath in the 1980s, private security guard Louis van Schoor killed at least 39 people in the South African city of East London. All of his victims were black. The youngest was just 12 years old.

It is a killing spree that places van Schoor among the most prolific mass killers in history. He was caught and arrested in 1991, but with many of his killings signed off by local police as ‘justifiable homicides,’ he would receive a shockingly light sentence - serving only 12 years in jail.

Now he is free, van Schoor is ready to speak. He is adamant he is not racist and claims he has been scapegoated and unfairly characterised as a 'monster'. Filmed over four years, this documentary follows van Schoor as he attempts to justify his past actions – interweaving his disturbing tale with others whose lives he has shaped his daughter, the families of his victims, a journalist and an ANC activist.

It's 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 the story of van Schoor, this film will expose the disturbed past and racial injustices of South Africa itself.

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Sybrand Jacobus Lodewikus "Louis" van Schoor (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈsibrant jaˈkuəbœs luədəˈvikœs fɑn ˈskuər], 1951 – 25 July 2024), known as the Apartheid Killer, was a South African mass killer, policeman, and security guard who committed murders between 1986 and 1989. He was arrested in 1991 and convicted of seven murders and two attempted murders but was released on parole in 2003. It is believed that the total number of his victims was 39, all of them in East London, South Africa. Thirty-two of the killings were described as "justifiable homicides" by police, while Schoor himself insisted that his victims were "criminals" whom he had caught in the act.

Schoor died from sepsis to his leg on 25 July 2024, at the age of 72.

Louis van Schoor was the father of Sabrina van Schoor, who was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for hiring a hitman to murder her mother in 2002. Both were incarcerated in Fort Glamorgan prison before Louis van Schoor's release in 2004. Many black people celebrated Sabrina van Schoor for killing her mother, whom one of Sabrina's former boyfriends had described as "very arrogant and racist."

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  • List of serial killers in South Africa
  • List of serial killers by number of victims

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  • BBC News Africa (21 July 2024). The Apartheid Killer: Exposing the ghosts of South Africa’s past - BBC Africa Eye documentary.
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