Anti-Bapartaid Activists South Africa who pursue their persecution as a compensation of anger

It was late on the evening of December 10, 1987, when the prison officers woke up to Msolis Diaz in his camera in East Cape South Africa.

He remembers an unequal disc in the hospital morgue, where he was asked to identify the bodies of his pregnant girlfriend, his cousin and a colleague to combat apartheid.

In response, he sank to one knee, lifted his fist in the air and tried to shout “Amandla!” (“Power” in Zulu), in the act contrary.

But the word that hit the throat when it was “completely broken”, Mr. Dioxes the BBC, reminding of his loved ones under the cold, bright lights.

For four decades, Mr. Dioxes sleep with light to avoid the memories of the physical and mental torture he had experienced in four years of imprisonment.

He says he fought for the creation of life in a society for which he fought as an underground operative for Umkhont, we are an armed wing “then prohibited the African National Congress (Anc.”

The Anc headed the fight against the racist system of apartheid, which ended in 1994 with the rise of the party to power in the first multi -science elections of South Africa.

A Commission on Truth and Recreation (TRC) was established, which was the world-renowned policeman-archbishop Desmond Tutu to discover the atrocities of the apartheid regime, and a state repair fund was created to help some victims.

But most of this money remained largely unresolved.

Mr. Dyasi was among about 17,000 people who received a one-time payment of 30,000 Rand ($ 3,900; 2400 pounds at the time) in 2003, but he said it did very little to help it.

He wanted to finish his university education, but still did not pay for the courses he went through in 1997.

Now, in his 60s, he suffers from chronic health problems and difficult to afford medication on a special pension he receives veterans who participated in the fight for freedom and democracy.

Professor Tep Madlingzi, a member of the South African Human Rights Commission, who spoke to the BBC in his personal quality – says the consequences of the apartheid continued.

“It was not only about the murder of people, the disappearance of people, but also to record people in impoverishment of generation.”

He says that, despite the progress made in the last 30 years, many of the “generations without people” – the South Africans born after 1994 – inherited the cycle.

The reparation fund has about $ 110 million untouched, without clarity, why this is the case.

“What is the money used for? Is there any money still?” Professional Madlingzi commented.

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

Lawyer Howard Varna spent most of his career, presenting the victims of the apartheid era and says that the history of reparations in South Africa is one of “deep treason” for the affected families.

He is currently represented by a group of victims and survivors who sue the South Africa government for $ 1.9 million for the fact that it is an inability to adequately fight the cases of political crimes that have been allocated currently operating for further investigation and persecution.

Brian Mfalale was polite and soft; He stopped before answering the question, as if waiting for his thoughts in his head.

He suffered from the loss of memory, only one of the aspects of the long impact of physical and psychological torture, which he passed in the infamous Cape Town polls.

Mr. Mphalele said BBC that the payment of 30,000 Rand, which he received for the violations he had experienced over 10 years in prison, was an insult.

“It passed in my fingers. It went through the fingers, it was so little,” the 68-year-old guy said last year from his nephew’s home in Lang in Cape Town, where he lived.

He felt that a more significant payment would allow him to buy his own home and describe his disappointment in Lang’s life, where he ate three times a week.

Ever since he talked to the BBC, Mr. died, his hope for a more comfortable life.

Professor Madlingzi says South Africa has become a “poster” of racial reconciliation after the end of apartheid and in many ways inspired the world.

“But we also inadvertently gave the wrong message, which is that the crime against humanity can be committed without consequences,” he says.

Although he feels he can still turn.

“In South Africa, there is an opportunity for 30 years in democracy to show that you can make a mistake and correct these mistakes.”

Mr Dios still remembers the sense of freedom and optimism he felt when he left the prison in 1990 after the last white leader of South Africa Fw de Kler unbuttoned the Anc and other liberations, opening the way to Nelson’s anti-port icons to become the first black president.

But Mr. Diox says he does not feel proud of who he is today, and his disappointment is felt by many who fought with him and their families.

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

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

“And some people would say, ‘You were in prison, you were shot. But what can you show for this? “