‘Waited for 40 years’: South Africa’s Cradock Four families want justice

A mass funeral was held for the Cradock Four, who were killed in 1985 [Creative Commons]

Johannesburg, South Africa – On the night of June 27, 1985 in South Africa, four Black men were travelling together in a car from the southeastern city of Port Elizabeth, now Gqeberha, to Cradock.

They had just finished doing community organising work on the outskirts of the city when apartheid police officials stopped them at a roadblock.