South Africa Re-opens Inquiry into Deaths of Apartheid-Era Activists

A South African court opened an inquest on Monday into the murders 40 years ago of four anti-apartheid activists by a police hit squad in one of the most notorious atrocities of the apartheid era.

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No one has been brought to justice for the 1985 killings of the 'Cradock Four', and their families have accused the post-apartheid government of intervening to block the case from going to trial.

Teachers Fort Calata, Matthew Goniwe, and Sicelo Mhlauli, and railway worker Sparrow Mkonto were abducted and killed while returning home from a political meeting in the southern town of Cradock in 1985.