Johannesburg, South Africa – On June 27, 1985, in South Africa, four black men were traveling together in the South -East city port Elizabeth, now in Guckbea’s car.
When the police officer officials stopped him on the roadblock, he had just completed the work of working in the outside of the city.
Four – Teacher Fort Kalata, 29, and Matthew Goniwe, 38; School Principal Siselo Muloli, 36; And the railway worker Sparrow Makonto, 34 – was abducted and harassed.
Later, their bodies were found thrown into different parts of the city – they were beaten, hit and burned badly.
The police and apartheid government initially rejected any participation in the murder. However, it was known that during that time, men were surveying for their activism against the terrible situation of the black South Africa.
Soon, evidence of the warrant of death issued for some members of the group unknownly leaked and then he Came to emerge That their murder was planned long ago.
Although the murder was inquired into the career of caste discrimination in 198 77 and 199 199, no criminal has been named or charged.
“The first inquiry was taken entirely in African,” Lukhanio Kalata, Earlier this month, Ford Calta’s son, Al, said to Jazir. “My mother and other mothers have not been given any opportunity to make statements in it,” the 43 -year -old boy said.
“It was a court in South Africa. It was clear that four people were killed, but no one could be convicted, the courts said.”
Immediately after the expiry of the independence in 199 199 in, the Truth and Son -Sona Commission (TRC) was established. There hearing confirmed that the “Cramedock Four” was truly targeted for their political activation. Even though some former apickers have confessed to being involved in it, they would not disclose the details and they were denied the loan waiver.
Now, four decades after the assassination, a new inquiry has begun. Although justice has never been approaching for the family of the judge, it has been very waiting.
“We have been waiting for justice for years,” Lukhanio told local media this week. “We hope the process finally ordered, who took them out and why it will be exposed,” he told outside the court in Guckbarha, where hearing is taking place.
As a journalist of South Africa, it is almost impossible to cover the inquiry without thinking about the scope of crime during the time of apartheid – the agenda of criminal, racism, the agenda of a criminal, was the most violent and deadly end.
There are many stories like Kalat, many victims like Kadock Four, and many families are still waiting for the truth about what happened to their loved ones.
Known
At present in the court proceedings in GQberha, watching the family reminded me of Nokhutu Simlen.
More than ten years ago, I went to Bethal in the province of Mepumalanga to talk to her family about her disappearance in 19833. Simlen Umkhonto We Siegeway (MK), which was an armed branch of the African National Congress (ANC) – the liberation movement transformed the majority of the government in South Africa.
As MK operative, she worked as a courier with South Africa and the parcel in South Africa and the Swamsheland at that time.
Simlen was shown at a meeting in Johannesburg and from there he was abducted and kept in police custody, tortured and disappeared.
Her family says she feels the pain of not being able to bury her.
At the TRC, five whites from the special branch of the dispute police applied for a loan waiver, assuming Simlen’s abduction and murder.
Former police commander Villel Koetzi, who is the head of the security police unit, refused to give her a murder order. But his colleague’s witness was resisted that he was brutally murdered in the northern West province and buried somewhere. Koetzi said in the past that information was changed to Simlan as an into and was sent to Swaziland again.
So far, no one has taken responsibility for her disappearance – no apartheid security forces NOr ANC.
In the case of the Craadock Four, I thought of anti -apostate activist and South African Communist Party member Ahmed Timol, who was harassed and killed in 1971.
The apartheid police said that a 5 year -old teacher fell down from the window on the tenth floor of the notorious John Voruster Square Police Headquarters in Johannesburg, where he was arrested. In the next year, the inquiry concluded that he had died of suicide, when the apartheid government was known for false and cover-up.
In the decades later, in the Democratic Government inquiry in 1 in, it was found that Timol was so badly persecuted in the closet that he could never jump through the window.
Former Security Branch Officer Joao Rodrigues was formally accused of murdering Timole. The elderly Rodriguez rejected the allegations and applied for a permanent settlement of the case and said that he would not get the right prosecution because he could not remember the death of Timole properly, how many years it passed. Rodriguez died in 2021.
‘Crime against his humanity’
The apartheid was cruel. And people are left behind, unanswered trauma and unanswered question is salt in deep wounds.
That is why families like Kadock Four are still in court searching for the answer.
In her reality before the court this month, 73 -year -old Numbuuselo Muloli, The wife of Siselo Mullyley, when she received the ruins of the burial, described the condition of her husband’s body. She said that he had over 25 wind wounds on his chest, seven on the back, a beating and right hand beyond his throat, she said.
I spoke to Lukhanio a day before I returned to court to continue his father’s murder hearing.
Talking about how emotional drainage this process was – still essential. He talked about the impact on HIS and his life and outlook, who was growing without his father as a journalist.
“There were some crimes against our humanity. If you look at the state where you found my father’s body, it was a clear crime against his humanity,” Lukhanio testified on the sixth day of the inquiry.
But his disappointment and anger does not end the government. He has an ANC, which is in power from the end of the racism, is partially responsible for taking a long time to look into these crimes.
ANC betrayed the Crackdock Four, and this betrayal believes in “the deepest cut”.
He said, “We are sitting in a society that is completely chaotic today,” he said in court. “(This is) because at the beginning of this democracy, we have not done the right process to tell the rest of the society that you will be held responsible for the things you do wrong.”
The grandfather of Fort Kalata, the venerable Canon James Arthur Kalta, was the Secretary-General of the ANC from 39 39 to 19 to 19. The Kalta family is a long history of the movement of the movement, which makes it difficult for a person like Luhanio to understand why the party has taken so much time to deliver justice.
Looking for a responsibility and peace
South African Justice and Constitutional Development Minister, Mammoloko Kubaye, said that due to the oppression of the apartheid-yoga, the victims of the victims have intensified and the efforts to shut down.
“These efforts indicate a new commitment to restore justice and national treatment,” the department said.
The murder of Kadock Four, Simlen and Timol is one of the terrible and stories you know.
But I am often surprised about all the names, victims and buried testimony.
The murder of numerous mothers, elders, sisters, sons, and daughters due to the rule of apartheid not only for the Those Those, but also for the awareness of the South African community, no matter how normal the death toll.
It is not clear how long this new inquiry will take. The former security police, political personality and forensic experts are expected to last for weeks.
Initially, six police officers were arrested in the murder. They are all dying, but the family members of the Crackdock Four say that the senior officers of the order should be held responsible.
However, the state is unhappy to pay legal expenditure on police officers of the police officers who are involved in the assassination and can reduce the process.
Meanwhile, the families are trying to make peace with the past as they are waiting for their loved ones to answer the responsibility for those responsible.
“I am by myself, trying to bring children, father -in -law children,” Nombuuselo told Al Jazir about the years of her husband Ceuselo’s death. “The last 40 years are very difficult for me – emotionally and spiritually.”
