DLADLA, Li

I found him at the mortuary. He was burnt. I recognized him by his foot which was burnt but it wasn’t fully burnt.

it wasn’t the TRC I wouldn’t have gone so far. That’s all what I can say. I’m so pleased, because my son, he died for the nation, so I would like the nation to rebury him. As he says to me, mommy you have got four sons, three are yours, but I’m for the nation. Exactly today, I see that ...

I think the Truth Commission is going to help me to find out what had happened to him, who killed him, how and why? And all I wanted from the Truth Commission, I want that my son must be reburied, because I didn’t bury him. Ja, I want his bones.

June 26, 1986. Shortly after midnight a group of 13 ANC activists launches a hand grenade attack on the house of a policeman on the East Rand. The grenades and the limpet mine explode in their faces. Six activists and two innocent bystanders die. The story has been told by its executioner. // De ...