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Decades post-apartheid, MK operatives' families seek closure and recognition for their loved ones' sacrifices.

The 21 former MK operatives were murdered and some abducted by apartheid security forces throughout the country between 1986 and 1990.

Shaun Smillie Dirk Coetzee, the former South African Police death-squad commander and intelligence officer, in Pretoria. The Vlakplaas operation had a brief mention in an amnesty statement during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). But it appears in greater detail in Dirk Coetzee’s unpublished memoir, Testimony of a South African Security Policeman: The Full Story. As former security police blame fading memories to dodge questions about...

Gruesome Matola raid remembered, perpetrators still walking free Share Durban - Four decades after commandos from the then SA Defence Force illegally entered Mozambique and killed 15 members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the raid that shocked the southern Africa region was commemorated over the weekend. So far no one has been held accountable for the brutal raid. The raid happened on January 30, 1981 and the apartheid army had falsely believed that among those killed on that day was Joe Slovo, the...