Inquest Into Notorious Apartheid-era Killings Opens In South Africa

We want to correct the historic record families of the Cradock Four, beaten and killed in 1985, seek justice 40 years on An inquest has opened into of South Africas apartheid era, with a former general denying he ordered the deaths of four men who became known as the Cradock Four. Fort Calata, Matthew Goniwe, Sicelo Mhlauli and Sparrow Mkonto were stopped at a roadblock on 27 June 1985 by security officers and beaten, strangled with telephone wire, stabbed and shot to death.