A murder inquiry involving Winnie Madikizela-Mandela may be launched after police exhumed the remains of what is thought to be anti-apartheid activists Corlett Sono and Siboniso Shabalala, who disappeared 24 years ago.
In 1997, Sono’s father told the Truth Commission that he last saw his son with Madikizela-Mandela. He told the commission Sono had been beaten up and that Madikizela-Mandela told him that his son was an apartheid spy.
She described the allegations as ridiculous.
Last year, an investigator from the Missing Person’s Unit found records and photographs taken by mortuary officials in 1988 of men who were identified by family as Sono and Shabalala. The family then gave the go-ahead for the exhumation.
The TRC had found that Madikizela-Mandela’s Mandela United Football Club, had killed 18 people in Soweto during apartheid.
The ANC in Gauteng said it supported the exhumation of the graves believed to contain the remains of Sono and Shabalala at Avalon cemetery, south of Johannesburg, yesterday.
Source: SABC News
