Missing Persons Task Team News Today

Technology has helped uncover an apartheid secret and bring closure to the family of the “Mamelodi 10”, teenagers who were abducted and killed on June 26 1986.

In the 1980s, several activists were detained, tortured and killed, far away from their homes – then their bodies were blown apart by explosives or burnt. Their devastated families have finally been given some closure.

The National Prosecuting Authority’s Missing Persons Task Team will on Friday conduct a public exhumation of the body of an ANC activist James Booi, who died in 1966 in the Free State.

Water from the ANC political activist's grave could not deter a forensic expert team from recovering James Booi's remains.

The family of political prisoner James Booi heard that he died in 1996 but they had no idea where he was buried. The NPA Missing Persons Task Team believes his remains are in a pauper’s grave in Sasolburg.

The crime of apartheid (declared in 1966 by the UN) has largely gone unpunished since SA's transition in 1996. Most perpetrators have either died or are still living on comfortable pensions while the families of victims suffer in pain or die themselves.

The Minister zeroed in on the scourge of GBV that has gripped the nation, with reports of women being killed at the hands of men dominating the media space over the past few weeks.

Conversations about death and dying can be difficult. Yet, the pandemic has shown us that life is finite and that we have to be able to talk about it.

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