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An inquest into the deaths of the Cradock Four, a group of anti-apartheid activists who were assaulted and murdered after being stopped in a roadblock set up by the apartheid security police in 1985, has been reopened.
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36 years later and still no justice for Cradock Four
By Yasmin Sooka
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Today marks 36 years since the murder by the apartheid state of the four anti-apartheid activists, Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkonto, Fort Calata and Sicelo Mhlauli, known as the Cradock Four, on June 27, 1985.
Goniwe and Calata were perceived by the apartheid state as threats and described as being “in the forefront of a revolutionary attack against the state”. The four activists were coming from a meeting of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Port Elizabeth when they were intercepted at a police roadblock. They were abducted, tortured and their bodies were later burnt.