unearthing SA’s past
Digging up apartheid’s skeletons
The National Prosecuting Authority’s missing persons task team has spent the past 14 years searching for the remains of the ‘disappeared’ – those missing, presumed murdered by the apartheid state
04 July 2019 - 05:00
Madeleine Fullard is crouching in an open grave in the Winterveld cemetery near Soshanguve, Tshwane. It is nearly noon, but the cold June air cuts through the sunlight.
At Fullard’s feet lies the newly exhumed skeleton of a man who died after being shot twice: once in the jaw, and once in his arm. The hole in his jaw offers a clear testament of how his life ended...
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