(Vatican Radio) - In 1994, four years after the late Nelson Mandela's release from
prison he was elected President of South Africa. A couple of years later Veronica
Scarisbrick was invited by Unicef to go on a fact-finding mission to this nation and
produced a series of programmes by the title of ‘Apartheid and After’. In this
episode of that archive series you can hear the testimonies of three different generations
of South Africans speaking about their personal experience in this respect. Among
those Veronica Scarisbrick spoke to back in 1996 was Peter Dadla a 58 year old man
from Soweto who struggled against apartheid all the early years of his life, Pinky
Vilakazi who belonged to the generation of township students to bring the apartheid
system to its heel and sixteen year old, Queeneth, who was old enough at the time
to know the meaning of apartheid, with an awareness she should forgive but never
forget. Also in this programme the witness of a Catholic priest.