Anti -Party Activists in South Africa pursued by their pursuit as anger for compensation

It was late on the night of December 10, 1987, when the prison officers woke up Mozolisi Daasi in their cell in the east cape of South Africa.

He remembers the uneven driving to a hospital morgue, where he was asked to identify his pregnant girlfriend’s bodies, his cousin and his colleague Anti -Partede Fighter.

In response, he had fallen on a knee, raised his fist in the air, and tried to shout “Amandla!” (“Power” in Zulu), in an act of challenge.

But the word caught in his throat because he was “completely broken”, Daisi tells the BBC, recalling the view of his relatives under the cold, bright lights.

Four decades on, Dyasi sleeps with lights to protect memories from the physical and mental torture he has suffered in his four years in prison.

He says he has struggled to build a life for himself in the society he fought for as an underground operative for Umkhonto We Sizwe, Tenest’s armed wing forbidden African National Congress (AnC).

Anc leads the fight against Apartheid’s racist system, which ended in 1994 with the rise of the Party of Party at the first multiplicity elections in South Africa.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which was co -chairman of the internationally renowned priest Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was created to reveal the atrocities committed by the Apartheid regime and a state reparation fund was created to help some of the victims.

But much of this money has not largely missed.

Mr Dyasi was among about 17,000 people who received a one-time payment of $ 30,000 ($ 3,900; £ 2,400 at the time) from him in 2003, but he said it did very little to help him.

He wanted to complete his university education, but has not yet paid for courses he took in 1997.

Now in his 60s, he suffers from chronic health problems and it is difficult to afford medicines on the special pension he receives for veterans who have participated in the struggle for freedom and democracy.

Professor Tsepo Madlingzi, a member of the Human Rights Committee in South Africa who speaks to the BBC in his personal capacity – says that Apartheid’s effects continue to be detrimental.

“It was not just about the murder of people, the disappearance of people, but about the locking of people in impoverishment between generations.”

He says that despite the progress achieved in the last 30 years, many of the “born free” generation – the South Africans born after 1994 – inherited the cycle.

The Reparation Fund has about $ 110 million untouched, not knowing why this is the case.

“What is the money used for? Are money still there?” Prof. Madlingzi commented.

The government did not respond to the BBC request for comment.

The lawyer Howard Varna has spent much of his career by presenting victims of Apartheid’s crimes and saying that the history of reparations in South Africa is a “deep betrayal” for the affected families.

He is currently a group of families and survivors of victims who are suing the South African government for $ 1.9 million because of what they say is his inability to deal with adequate cases of political crimes that have been emphasized by the distant TRC for additional investigations and persecution.

Brian Mfalele was kind and soft; He will pause before answering a question as if waiting for his thoughts to unite in his mind.

He suffers from memory loss, only one aspect of the lasting effects of the physical and psychological torture he had suffered in the famous Pollsmoor prison of Cape Town.

Mr. Mphalle told the BBC that paying off 30,000 Rand, which he received for the violations he had suffered during his 10 years in prison, is an insult.

“He walked through my fingers. It went through everyone’s fingers, it was so small,” said the 68-year-old on the phone last year from his nephew’s home in Langa in Cape Town where he lived.

He believed that a more important payment would allow him to buy his own home and describe his powerlessness in his life in Langa, where he ate in the kitchen for soup three times a week.

As he talks to the BBC, the Mfalele has died, his hope for a more comfortable life is unfulfilled.

Prof. Madlingzi says South Africa became the “child of the plaque” of racial reconciliation after the end of apartheid and inspired the world in many ways.

“But we also involuntarily give a wrong message, which is that a crime against humanity can be committed without a consequence,” he says.

Although it feels that things can still turn.

“South Africa has the opportunity for 30 years in democracy to show that you can make mistakes and correct these mistakes.”

Mr. Dyasi still remembers the sense of freedom and optimism he was experiencing when he left prison in 1990 after the last white ruler of South Africa FW de Klerk released Anc and other liberation movements, making the way to the icon of the Antipartyda Nelson Mandela to become the first black president.

But Dyasi says that he is not proud of who he is today, and his disappointment is felt by many who fight with him and their families.

“We don’t want to be millionaires,” he says. “But if the government can simply examine the health of these people, if they can take care of their livelihood, include them in the country’s economic system.”

“There were children who were orphaned from the fight. Some children wanted to go to school but still can’t. Some people are homeless.

“And some people would say,” You were in prison, you were shot dead. But what can you show about it? “