TRC Roulette : Mbeki’s Radio Freedom broadcast on eve of Cradock Four funeral played at Khampepe inquiry
One of the attachments to the bundle of papers former president Thabo Mbeki submitted to the Khampepe Commission of inquiry into delayed post-TRC prosecutions was a sound clip of a speech broadcast on the ANC’s Radio Freedom on the eve of the burial of the murdered ‘Cradock Four’, Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkonto and Sicelo Mhlauli.
Former President Thabo Mbeki submitted documents to the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry, one of which was a sound clip from a speech broadcast on Radio Freedom. The broadcast took place on the eve of the Cradock Four's funeral, which featured Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkonto, and Sicelo Mhlauli. These four UDF activists were abducted, assaulted, stabbed, strangled, and shot by security police on June 27, 1985, and their bodies were burned and mutilated.
The Cradock Four's deaths were found to be the responsibility of the security forces by Judge Neville Zietsman in 1993, although no individual was named. All security police members involved have since died.
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