I HAD TO FORGIVE HIM FOR MYSELF

‘I knew I had to come to terms with my loss’

IT WAS a bone-chilling sight: a man’s blackened body seated in a burnt-out minibus, his hands still clutching the steering wheel.

For nine-year-old Candice Mama, seeing the picture changed her world forever. For years her mother tried to shield her from the truth of what had happened to her dad – but one glance at that gruesome shot said it all.

Her father, Glenack Masilo Mama, had died a terrible death at the hands of Eugene de Kock, one of the most notorious men of the apartheid era.

The harrowing image caused Candice to sink into a debilitating depression