S4 Trailer: portraits of truth - intriguing characters

The End of Apartheid - South Africa’s Human Spirit

Two of the most intriguing characters to appear before the Truth Commission were an idol of the liberation struggle and a killer of the apartheid state: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Joe Mamasela. She was a victim of gross human rights abuses. The apartheid government and its policemen harassed her, banished her to Brandfort in the Free State in 1977 for eight years and jailed her husband, Nelson Mandela, for a generation. Joe Mamasela, on the other hand, was a victim of both the ANC and the Security Police. His liberation movement accused him of being a police informer in 1979 and burnt his brother to death. The Security Police captured him at an ANC safe house near Pretoria, tortured him and tamed him as their "terrorist". But at separate and highly emotional hearings, both Madikizela-Mandela and Mamasela stood accused of perpetrating gross violations of human rights: abducting, assaulting and murdering fellow black South Africans. She denied the allegations. He admitted to them. Both refused to seek amnesty.

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

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

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