MK vet's send-off highlights ANC's betrayal of former fighters

We bade farewell to Edwin Hlape Melato last Sunday. After a two-hour service in a tent pitched outside his shack at Elias Motsoaledi squatter camp in Soweto, he was taken to Avalon cemetery, amid exuberant singing and dancing interspersed with bursts of automatic gunfire. It was a send-off fit for a hero, but it was the sort of attention that unfortunately eluded him in life.