I previously wrote a blurb about my time in South Africa with our IBSI Ambassadors. I wrote about our time learning at Constitution Hill in Prison Number Four. Something else happened on Constitution Hill that burned in my memory. Here is the transcript below. You can also watch the video here.
“…this talks about a political activist; a female political activist who was part of the South African Communist Party, and also the military wing of the ANC. Her name was Phindile… and during apartheid the state police would always kidnap Blacks and take them to police stations where they would torture them for days, and Phindile was one of those females. She was tortured for four days without sleep. On the fifth day, they tried to let her sleep, and then threw her with a bucket of cold water. She woke up [and] they thought she would speak, but she didn’t. So she was basically known as the most stubborn female.”
“And she was tortured again. Countless days. She did not sleep. And what happened is her lifeless body was found in a field—naked body—with a bullet wound to the head, and it was also alleged that she was raped by the White officials. Now the person who was passing by, saw the naked body, and to restore her dignity, he decided to take plastics, and put them on her private parts.”
“The Lady In the Blue Dress. So this is to commemorate Phindile, who was murdered by the State Police of Apartheid.”