No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu

Author:Desmond Tutu [Tutu, Desmond]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-56628-7
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2012-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

That ought to leave people quite speechless with the wonder of it all and make you want to be still in the presence of something so sublime, filled to overflowing with a sense of deep thankfulness that nearly all the victims, black and white, possessed this marvelous magnanimity. It did seem to augur well for our country.

At this same East London hearing we listened to the testimony of the widows of the Cradock Four and the daughter of one of them, Ms. Babalwa Mhlauli. Babalwa means “the blessed one” and what she said at the hearing was indeed to bring the grace of blessing to those who heard her words.

These four men were dedicated to work for a new and just dispensation in their rural communities which, as was usual, suffered even more severely from the depredations of apartheid than their urban counterparts. (Though you could hardly convince urban dwellers of this: they all believed that their existence was sheer hell.) The four had all been frequently detained, tortured, threatened, and harassed by the Security Police before their abduction and killing.

Nomonde Calata, wife of Fort, one of the victims, testified at our first hearing:

“During the time when the [Eastern Province] Herald was being delivered, I looked at the headlines. And one of my children said: ‘Mother, look here, the car belonging to my father is burnt.’ At that moment I was trembling because I was afraid of what might have happened to my husband.… Nyami [Goniwe] was always supportive, I was still twenty at the time and I couldn’t handle this. So I was taken to Nyami’s place and when I got there Nyami was crying terribly.… ”

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