South African activists, who are anti -Francois, who are chasing their persecution as an outbreak of compensation

This was late at night on December 10, 1987 when prison officers Mzuli Daisi woke up in his cell in the eastern Cape Province in South Africa.

He remembers the rugged campaign to the hospital morgue, where he was asked to identify the bodies of his pregnant girlfriend, his cousin and his anti -apartheid colleague.

In response, he had fallen into one knee, raised his fist in the air, and tried to scream “Amandla!” (“Power” in Zulu), in a challenging act.

But the word that caught his throat as it was “completely broken,” as Mr. Dasi BBC told, recalling to see his loved ones under the bright cold lights.

Four decades later, Mr. Dassi sleeps with the spotlight to ward off the memories of physical and mental torture that he suffered during the four years in prison.

He says he struggled to build a life for himself in the society for which he fought as an underground factor for omegonto, we will settle, the armed wing of the banned African National Conference.

The African National Congress Party led the struggle against the racist system for the racist semester, which ended in 1994 with the party’s rise to power in the first multi -ethnic elections in South Africa.

The Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC), which participated in the chairmanship of the Archbishop of the internationally famous cleric Desmond Toto, was established to reveal the atrocities committed by the apartheid system, and the state’s compensation fund was created to help some of the victims.

But a lot of this money has ended greatly.

Mr. Dasi was among about 17,000 people who received one time at a value of 30,000 Rand ($ 3900; 2400 pounds at the time) of him in 2003, but he says this only did little to help him.

He wanted to complete his university education, but he did not pay for training courses in 1997.

Now in his sixties, he suffers from chronic health issues and finds it difficult to bear medications on the special pension he receives for the old warriors who participated in the struggle for freedom and democracy.

Professor Chibo Madengzi – a member of the South African Human Rights Committee who spoke to BBC as personal – says the effects of the apartheid are still devastating.

“It was not only the killing of people, and the disappearance of people, but it was about people standing in poverty between generations.”

He says that despite the progress made over the past thirty years, many “free generation” – South Africa born after 1994 – inherited the session.

The Compensation Fund contains about $ 110 million without touching it, without clarity on the reason for this.

“What is the money used? Are the money still there?” Professor Madengzi commented.

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

Lawyer Howard Verney spent a lot of his career in the representation of victims of the crimes of the apartheid era and says that the story of compensation in South Africa is the story of “deep betrayal” for affected families.

It currently represents a group of families of victims and survivors who are being paid by the South African government for $ 1.9 million about what they say has failed to deal with political crime cases that have been highlighted by TRC, which has now been delivered for more investigations and trial.

Brian MPHHLELE was polite and working. He stopped temporarily before answering a question, as if he was waiting for his thoughts to gather in his mind.

He suffered from memory loss, only one aspect of the permanent aspect of physical and psychological torture that he underwent in the reputable Cape Town prison.

MPHahlelele told the BBC that the payment of 30,000 Rand, which he received because of the violations she carried during the 10 -year prison, was an insult.

“He has gone with my fingers. I have gone with everyone’s fingers, it was very little,” said 68 -year -old on the phone last year from his nephew’s home in the town of Langa in the city of Cape Town.

He felt that a more fundamental boost would have enabled him to buy his home and describe his frustration in his life in Langa, where he ate in the soup kitchen three times a week.

Since he spoke to the BBC, Mr. Mphahlele died, hoping for a more comfortable life.

Professor Madengengzi says that South Africa has become the “stalled child” for racist reconciliation after the end of the apartheid, and has inspired the world in several ways.

“But we also intentionally presented a wrong message, which is that a crime against humanity can be committed without any result,” he says.

Although he feels that it is still possible to turn on things.

“South Africa has a 30 -year opportunity in democracy to show that you can make mistakes and fix these mistakes.”

Mr. Dasi still remembers the feeling of freedom and optimism he felt when he left prison in 1990 after the last white ruler in South Africa FW De Klerk for the African National Congress Party and other liberation movements, which paves the way for the anti -racist icon Nelson Mandela to become the first black president after four years.

But Mr. Dassi says that he does not feel proud of today, and the disappointment of his hope is felt by many who fought next to him and their families.

He says, “We do not want to be millions of people.” “But if the government is able to consider health care of these people, if it can take care of their livelihoods, it will involve them in the country’s economic system.”

“There were children tolerant because of the conflict. Some children wanted to go to school, but they were still unable to do so. Some people are homeless.

And some people were saying, “I was in prison, you were shot. But what can you show that? “