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Cradock FourExplanation ... Violation (HRV) Committee, held in East London between April the 15th and 19th.. Segments include testimonies by widows of the Pebco Three and Cradock Four (activists who were abducted and murdered by security forces in the mid 1980s), including an introductory profile of former Vlakplaas ... ... at two inquests into the murders of Matthew Goniwe, prominent Cradock activist and teacher, Sparrow Mkonto, Fort Calata and Sicelo Mhlauli. The Cradock Four disappeared in June 1985 while travelling between Cradock and Port Elizabeth. Their burnt bodies were found near St George’s Beach. ... ... members in what appeared to be a retaliatory attack. The second segment reports on the amnesty hearings of policemen responsible for killing the Cradock Four that continued in PE this week (23 February to 3 March). Applicants gave more detailed descriptions of the men?s deaths, however their ... ... witness protection team, including interviews with members from the team and with witnesses under protection. It further covers the HRV hearings in Cradock (10 to 12 February) and includes testimonies from a former student of Matthew Goniwe, Xolile Ntozini; and Mxolisi Mgoboza and Thembinkosi ... ... of former policemen connected to the deaths of activists Steve Biko, Siphiwo Mtimkulu, Topsy Madaka, Sizwe Kondile, the Pebco Three and the Cradock Four. It includes coverage of a commemoration ceremony by relatives of Siphiwo Mtimkulu, Topsy Madaka, Sipho Hashe, Qaquwuli Godolozi and ... two companions. But in the Truth Commission this week, Col. Niewoudt’s name was also linked to another well-known Eastern Cape murder mystery: the Cradock Four. Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkhonto and Sicelo Mhlauli were the leaders of the Cradock ratepayers’ association, like PEBCO ... ... and disclosed the elaborate cover-up they created. The second segment reports on the amnesty hearings of the policemen responsible for killing the Cradock Four, held in Port Elizabeth (23 February to 3 March). The segment includes interviews with the deceased?s relatives, who do not believe the ... Justice … OK it’s very difficult. Well a lot of harm was done to Cradock. He wasn’t just my father, but he was the father of Cradock. They were actually the fathers of Cradock. Justice to me would certainly not be justice to Cradock as a whole, but I would like the people who have killed them ... PE amnesty hearing: Killing of the Cradock Four Amnesty hearing, Port Elizabeth: Eastern Cape security policemen for killing of the Cradock Four TRC hearings, Cradock On Gideon Niewoudt, implicated in PEBCO three and Cradock four cases, and in torture of Siphiwe Mtimkulu The CRADOCK FOUR: Widow’s testimonies Amnesty applications of former policemen covering the killing of Steve Biko, Siphiwo Mtimkulu, Topsy Madaka, Sizwe Kondile, the Pebco Three and the Cradock Four a way one cannot speak about the Eastern Cape, that axis of eighties resistance, without resurrecting the name of the late Matthew Goniwe. Father of Cradock and founder of the United Democratic Front in the region Goniwe’s impact resonated throughout the hearings held in his hometown this week. ... ... alive again. Their mutilated, charred corpses were discovered days later in three different places along the Eastern Cape coastline. Who killed the Cradock Four? The Special Report has been asking that question since our very first broadcast in April 1996 when we showed their widows testifying ... ... Truth Commission hearings this past week we were given some insight into this mindset when three policemen applied for amnesty. We also visit Cradock on tonight’s programme, heart of the rural uprising against apartheid. And we talk to one of the most talked about men on the East Rand, ... Dorothy is the eldest daughter of the late Fort Calata, one of the four murdered activists known as the Cradock Four. Humbulelo is the late Matthew Goniwe’s nephew. They too do not regret their loss, but like the other families insist that the truth is one route to reconciliation. The sleepy Karoo town of Cradock is unique. From the mid 1980s it became the centre of rural resistance in the Eastern Cape. This week the Truth Commission made its way there to relive stories of murder and torture rigged on ordinary but militant communities by the state. ‘Ambush and Killing: Cradock 4’ // ‘Vernietig,’ destroy, ‘opspoor en vernietig,’ track down and destroy, ‘houvas breek,’ break their grip. |
