MAJOLA, Weh

The Commission sat in noisy cities and quiet dorpies. They sat in big imposing town halls and dingy schools and churches, from Messina in the north to Cape Town in the south and from everywhere the victims came. Some were dignified, silver haired elders, others impassioned young lions. Sometimes ...

I found her lying dead and her stomach was big and her mouth was wide open and her eyes were open as well. // And Sibusiso ran and went to the bridge next to Luzeke. That is where they got him when he was running away from them. // It was after my son’s death, the impi was coming for the second ...

shot at without warning after one of the youngsters went to a local security policeman’s house believing it empty. // Fezile Hanse was 14, Andile Majola 13, and Patrick Madikane 14. Their deaths started a spiral of violence in this tiny but militant township on the outskirts of Oudtshoorn. The ...