Letlapa mphahlele biography of mahatma gandhi

An ex-Army commander who ordered tit-for-tat massacres during the bloody struggles of South African apartheid visited Liverpool Hope University to spread his message of forgiveness and reconciliation. 

Letlapa Mphahlele was director of the military wing of the Pan-Africanist Congress, which carried out attacks on civilians in the early 90s, as their struggle against the divided nation’s white-majority Government raged.

In 1993 Mr Mphahlele ordered reprisal shootings in response to the killing of black school children, and among other brutal attacks, it led to the Heidelberg Tavern Massacre that saw four young people killed.

After the end of apartheid Mr Mphahlele was arrested on terrorism charges but they were later dropped and he was released.

He wrote a book about his experiences and during a promotional event met Ginn Fourie, whose daughter Lyndi was killed during the Heidel