The Mercy Declared at Pollsmoor Prison
In December 1983, South African police captain Johan van der Merwe helped orchestrate a campaign of violence against Black communities resisting apartheid. Bombings. Raids. Families...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9.
In December 1983, South African police captain Johan van der Merwe helped orchestrate a campaign of violence against Black communities resisting apartheid. Bombings. Raids. Families shattered without warning or remorse. When the apartheid regime finally crumbled, van der Merwe faced the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Cape Town, where Archbishop Desmond Tutu presided over a process the world had never seen.…
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