‘I feel that they should’ve done more than what they’ve given us here today in terms of information. There should have been hardcore information,’ said Fatiema Haron-Masoet.
Judge Motsamai Makume’s long-awaited judgment at the reopened inquest into the 1982 death of the anti-apartheid activist places blame squarely at the feet of the security police.
One of South Africa’s most lauded police officials, he investigated crimes by the authorities and dug into cold cases from the days of white nationalist rule.
A failure to manage diversity ‘has been one of the most troubling fault lines of the postcolonial African experience. As the last to attain our liberation, SA dares not tread this perilous path.’
Both enemies and apartheid securocrats have derided FW de Klerk’s claim that he ‘knew nothing’ about police and military hit squads and other illegal covert activities. Colonel Eugene ‘Prime Evil’ de Kock, the Vlakplaas hit squad commander, described De Klerk as an ‘unconvicted murd.