Raising Private Mtolo: Chapter Two

23 February 2016 - 02:35
By Shaun Smillie

The Mtolos were a family in turmoil. A month after Sijlmans found the identification pass, they received news from a man that he had found their grandfather's grave in a far-off land. "We were happy and sad at the same time, when we heard the news," says Martin Mtolo, one of Mtolo's grandsons."Happy because we now knew where he was buried, sad because in Zulu culture he is meant to be home.

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