Will South Africa鈥檚 disappeared activists ever be found?
Many political activists disappeared while in exile or in police custody in South Africa. They鈥檝e never been found.
On April 27, 1994, South Africans went to the polls to elect a new president. Among them were millions of Black citizens who had never voted because of the apartheid system that prevented them from having a say in their country鈥檚 political space.
That election would see Nelson Mandela, the anti- apartheid fighter, become South Africa鈥檚 first democratically elected and the country鈥檚 first Black president.
The fight against apartheid was long and bloody. Many political activists disappeared while in exile and in police custody in South Africa and they鈥檝e never been found.
Today Mpho Lakaje, who was 14 years old when his country saw the fall of the apartheid system, is speaking to Bafana Nkuta, whose brother has been missing since the 1970s. He also speaks to Madeleine Fullard, who sits on the Missing Persons Task Team, a government initiative whose mission is to finding out what happened to those people who disappeared.
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