The End of Apartheid - South Africa’s Human Spirit

S4E1: portraits of truth - nocturnal acts


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As a young man in Soweto in the seventies, Joe Mamasela was an activist following the teachings of Steve Biko and Malcolm X. But he ended up as a member of the Vlakplaas death squad, maiming and murdering his own people. Mamasela was an askari, an ANC freedom fighter that the Security Police "rehabilitated" into their own lethal weapon. An askari with a passion for gospel and soul music who killed about 40 anti-apartheid activists.


Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/portraitsright.htm#nocturnal


portraits of truth - former vlakplaas askari joe mamasela and former liberation icon winnie madikizela-mandela as enigmas


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