Former spy boss and anti-apartheid activist Moe Shaik says those who were responsible for torturing political detainees have to be forgiven if the country is to heal.
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The book details his trauma of detention and torture during the 1980s and recounts the role of former president Jacob Zuma during the Struggle. “They, too, no matter what they have done to us, have been deeply brutalised by the apartheid system. Please do not hold them individually responsible and bring out that they must be prosecuted.He said that he also understood why some detainees succumbed to brutality and blew the covers of other political activists.Shaik said apartheid’s humiliations remained in the minds of black people who were brutalised by the system.
At the book launch, he said he was initially sceptical of the security police officer, who is dubbed the “Nightingale” in the book.
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