Cop involved in killing of Cradock Four kills himself

A former Port Elizabeth security policeman who confessed to his role in the murder of the Cradock Four struggle heroes has taken his own life more than 30 years after the notorious apartheid atrocity which changed South Africa’s political landscape forever. Gerhard Lotz‚ 56‚ who admitted his role in the killings in 1985 of Matthew Goniwe‚ Fort Calata‚ Sparrow Mkhonto and Sicelo Mhlauli – known as the Cradock Four – before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1998‚ shot himself in hi...