South Africa is Still Dealing with the Horrors of Apartheid

It's been reported that for more than three decades, Nokuthula Simelane’s family has agonized over her fate.

Simelane was just 23, a university graduate and anti-apartheid activist, when she was kidnapped by security branch police officers in 1983. The policemen beat and tortured her for being a courier for uMkhonto weSizwe (“Spear of the Nation”), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), transporting messages between South Africa and Swaziland.

Simelane was never seen again, and her body never found.

Now, 33 years after she went missing, state prosecutors have announced they will charge four former police officers in her kidnapping and murder. 

Willem Coetzee, Anton Pretorius, Frederick Mong and Msebenzi Radebe appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Feb. 26, where they were granted bail and the case is postponed until March 29. The men are facing charges of murder, with Radebe facing an additional charge of kidnapping.

Members of the death squad also included one African traitor

You can read more about Nokuthula here. 

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