UPDATE: Cradock Four Inquest, Nyoka and Mxenxe

June 14, 2025

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CRADOCK FOUR

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Cradock Four families make urgent plea to SANDF on legal funding for former member

ALGOA FM 13 Jun 2025 | Staff Writer

The families of the slain anti-apartheid activists known as the Cradock Four, have made an urgent appeal to the SA National Defence Force to pay the legal costs of a former officer implicated in their murders.

In a statement on Friday, they said that this will allow the third judicial inquest into the 1985 murders to continue uninterrupted in the Gqeberha High Court.

The first session of the inquest came to a close on Wednesday and will continue in October.

https://www.algoafm.co.za/local/cradock-four-families-make-urgent-plea-to-sandf-on-legal-funding-for-former-member

The enduring legacy of Fort Calata: A son’s perspective on fatherhood and social justice

SATURDAY STAR: Verna van Diemen 13 JUNE 2025

As Father’s Day approaches, Lukhanyo Calata, son of Fort Calata, one of the Cradock Four anti-apartheid activists murdered in 1985, spoke candidly about his father’s enduring legacy, the sacrifice that shaped South Africa’s freedom, and the ongoing challenges facing the country’s youth.

Lukhanyo was only three years old when his father was killed, leaving him too young to directly learn from Fort.

https://thestar.co.za/saturday-star/news/2025-06-13-the-enduring-legacy-of-fort-calata-a-sons-perspective-on-fatherhood-and-social-justice/

The Cradock Four Test South Africa’s Pursuit of Justice

AL JAZEERA: Published on: 12 June, 2025

A court in South Africa has heard emotional testimony from the widows and children of four anti-apartheid activists known as the Cradock Four. Fort Calata, Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkhonto and Sicelo Mhlauli were abducted and brutally murdered by apartheid police nearly 40 years ago. The first phase of the inquest has concluded in Port Elizabeth.

https://liberties.aljazeera.com/en/the-cradock-four-test-south-africas-pursuit-of-justice/

Cradock Four families seek justice for apartheid killings

EAST COAST RADIO: JUNE, 12, 2025,

A winter chill hung over the windswept cemetery in South Africa’s eastern town of Cradock where the untended graves of four activists assassinated by the apartheid regime were watched over by a monument in their memory, itself in disrepair.

https://www.ecr.co.za/news/news/cradock-four-families-seek-justice-apartheid-killings/

First session of Cradock Four inquest concludes

ALGOA FM 11 Jun 2025 | Phiwokuhle Mothemela

The families of the victims of the anti- apartheid activists known as the Cradock Four concluded their impact statements on the last day of the inquest into the deaths in the Gqeberha High Court.

Fort Calata, Mathew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkhonto and Sicelo Mhlauli, were brutally killed by apartheid-era police in 1985, and their families are still seeking answers nearly forty years later.

Nyaniso Goniwe and Reverend Charl Coetzee were the last to take to the stand on Wednesday, which was also the final day of the ‘first session’ of the inquest which started on 2 June.

https://www.algoafm.co.za/local/first-session-of-cradock-four-inquest-concludes

CAIPHUS NYOKA

MEDIA ARTICLES:

Johan Marais faces sentencing for the murder of activist Caiphus Nyoka in apartheid-era case

CAPE ARGUS: Zelda Venter 10 JUNE 2025

Former apartheid police officer Johan Marais, who was earlier found guilty of the 1987 murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka, will be back in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, on July 7, when arguments will be further presented regarding his possible sentence.

The defence called a psychologist last week who assessed the 66-year-old Marais.

She told the court that he has remorse for what he had done 38 years ago, and he wishes that he could undo what had happened.

https://iol.co.za/capeargus/news/2025-06-10-johan-marais-faces-sentencing-for-the-murder-of-activist-caiphus-nyoka-in-apartheid-era-case/