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South African killers now work on behalf of their victim
Easy Nofemela, a onetime soccer star, coaches a soccer team as part of his work with the Amy Biehl Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1993, Nofemela was part of the mob that attacked Biehl, and he was among four men convicted of her murder. After his release from prison, Nofemela became a community leader and went on to work for the charity that bears Biehl’s name.
(Simone Scholtz / WPN)
Reported from Guguletu, South Africa
Easy Nofemela remembers the evening Amy Biehl died. Coal stoves from township shacks had painted the twilight a sooty gray, signaling a cold winter’s night. Guguletu’s main road throbbed with cars. And a mob of angry young men was looking for symbols of white rule to destroy.
Shaun Smillie Dirk Coetzee, the former South African Police death-squad commander and intelligence officer, in Pretoria.
The Vlakplaas operation had a brief mention in an amnesty statement during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
But it appears in greater detail in Dirk Coetzee’s unpublished memoir, Testimony of a South African Security Policeman: The Full Story.
As former security police blame fading memories to dodge questions about apartheid atrocities, the book could break their code of silence.
In Cradock a red and white Volkswagen kombi filled with union members came to a stop at a police roadblock. Back in 1981 such roadblocks were routine, but what the delegation of National Automobile and Allied Workers Union members didn’t know as the police rummaged through their belongings was that there had been a tip-off.