Reconciliation

Adriaan Vlok – the old man and the dark shadow of the past

Adriaan Vlok – the old man and the dark shadow of the past

A Day in the Life of a war correspondent, Justice, Reconciliation, South Africa

5 January – EWN: The inquest into the deaths of former apartheid activists known as the Cradock Four has been reopened following new evidence.
Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkonto, Fort Calata and Sicelo Mhlauli were abducted and killed in 1985 while on their way home to Cradock in the Eastern Cape.

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Reconciliation and redemption: The old man and the dark shadow of the past

Blog, Reconciliation

As a brutal war rages in Europe, this writer considers what South Africa’s own violent history reflects to the wider world about reconciliation and even redemption. I have been haunted by this image for months: an old man in an ill-fitting, pale blue shirt and flapping khaki pants, wearing a grey woollen beanie on his

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