Mapetla Mohapi with his wife, Nohle (right) and sister-in-law, Mrs Matsoanyane Mohapi. The failure by successive governments to prosecute these apartheid-era killers, Gugushe said, ‘continues to perpetuate the findings of yesteryear and continues to perpetuate the actions and corrupt activities’ of the apartheid regime. Gugushe added that the apartheid system allowed ‘criminals to get away with murder, robbing ordinary people of their lives, and robbing the remaining ones of the sense of justice.’ ‘Despite all this evidence, the various experts, from police, investigators, medical practitioners, pathologists, right up to the judges, colluded to make sure that the outcome they achieved was “Suicide By Hanging”, as the official record.’ Various unexplained bruises were also found on his body.
Mohapi’s family challenged this account by the apartheid regime and engaged the services of a handwriting expert who confirmed that the handwriting and signature on the note were not consistent with that of Mohapi’s. ‘In the case of my father, a fake suicide note was produced indicating that he was going to take his own life.’ ‘The various organs of the state colluded to make sure that no one was held accountable for the crimes they committed,’ Gugushe declared. Mohapi’s killing was officially recorded as the 25th ‘death in custody’ during apartheid South Africa. Gugushe is the CEO of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund (NMCF). ‘Corruption: An obstacle to social and transitional justice’ was the theme of the virtual lecture, which was also addressed by Nkosinathi Biko, son of Steve Biko who was killed in detention on September 12, 1977, and the Reverend Chris Nissen, of the South African Human Rights Commission. Police produced a forged suicide note to cover up the murder of 28-year-old Mohapi. Twenty days later, on August 5, Mohapi was found dead in his cell. He was the first person to be detained under that particular section of the Act. Mapetla Mohapi, a director of Zimele Trust, which saw to the welfare of ex-political prisoners and their families, secretary of the South African Students’ Organisation and a member of the Black Consciousness Movement, was detained at the Kei Road Police Station in the former Transkei by the apartheid regime on Junder Section 6 of the Terrorism Act. Gugushe, youngest daughter of Mapetla Mohapi, was speaking at the Imam Abdullah Haron Annual Memorial Lecture 2020 on September 27, hosted by the Imam Haron Foundation. THE failure by government, since 1994, to prosecute apartheid-era killers perpetuates the falsehood and lies of the apartheid regime, asserts Konehali Gugushe. Click here to show all.FARID SAYED reports on the address at the Imam Abdullah Haron Annual Memorial Lecture 2020 by Konehali Gugushe, daughter of murdered anti-apartheid activist, Mapetla Mohapi. Those who have enjoyed the Wahloo-Sjowall books will find no great innovations in FACELESS KILLERS, but will find many of the same joys. The power of the commonplace, and of ordinary decency, are familiar to those who've read the works of Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall, those previous masters of the Swedish crime novel, and Mankell follows the same well-marked path, down to the stripped, unadorned prose and domesticity of style.
THEME OF FACELESS KILLERS DRIVER
Though he manages to survive several violent escapades, he unwinds one night by drinking excessively, then tries to drive home from then until the end of the novel he disparages himself as a drunk driver unfit to be on the force.
He is above all a conventional cop, and a staunch defender of the public order. Wallender is no Rebus, running rough over the fine points of the law. Wallender's sense of order is affronted on two sides he's not convinced that Sweden should be so welcoming to refugees, and certain that any murder rips at the fabric of a heterogeneous Swedish society. When word leaks through the press that foreigners may have been responsible for the murder, a Somali asylum seeker is killed by racists in revenge, and Wallender has two cases to solve, with the threat of more killings to come. Xenophobia animates both the plot and theme of FACELESS KILLERS. The only clue left by the killers is a noose with a knot unfamiliar to Swedish forensics, and so presumably tied by foreigners. The task of solving the crime falls upon Inspector Kurt Wallender, a decent man overwhelmed by the recent breakup of his family.
THEME OF FACELESS KILLERS SKIN
None of the neighbors have witnessed anything out of the ordinary, and few places on earth are as placid and conventional as rural Sweden, where anyone with skin darker than day-old snow is either a foreigner or back on holiday from Spain. One winter night a retired farmer and his wife are savagely murdered in their farmhouse near the small city of Skane, Sweden.
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