Carl Niehaus
By Carl Niehaus
I stood with President Nelson Mandela in the blood-soaked streets of Boipatong on 17 June 1992.
Bodies lay hacked with pangas and axes, limbs severed, skulls crushed.
The horror was not the spontaneous eruption of “Black-on-Black violence” that the apartheid regime and its apologists claimed. It was the deliberate work of the third force — a calculated campaign of terror engineered by apartheid securocrats, Vlakplaas operatives like Eugene de Kock, and their Inkatha Freedom Party collaborators, including warlords such as Themba Khoza.
