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The unit was named after and inspired by Bonteheuwel activist and MK soldier, Ashley Kriel, who worked hard to conscientise 1980s working-class youth (image supplied by publisher)
ANC

Those who attack funerals self-identify as pariahs

What happens in Israel and Palestine does not affect Israelis and Palestinians, alone. It fuels a global fault-line of mistrust, suspicion, intolerance and violence

  • Mamphela Ramphele
  • Niclas Kjellström-Matseke
6 min read
The Ashley Kriel Detachment was among the most successful in Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), the seven units having carried out more than 30 operations between 1987 and 1990. (Courtesy of Nadine Cloete)
ACTION KOMMANDANT
Video

‘Voices from the Underground’: in service for our liberation

These 18 stories from members of MK’s Ashley Kriel detachment teach the meaning of sacrifice

  • Nadine Cloete
8 min read
Hettie Classe (left), the mother of Robert Waterwitch, and Wilhelmina Williams (centre), the mother of Coline Williams, at the service for the 30th anniversary of the MK operatives’ deaths. (David Harrison/M&G)
ASHLEY KRIEL

MK families call on NPA for justice

Decades after people who fought for freedom died under suspicious circumstances, relatives want their cases reopened

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read
Ahmed Timol’s brother
AHMED TIMOL

Justice fundamental to dealing with the effects of mass trauma

South Africa’s TRC was not enough to deal with the traumas inflicted by the apartheid state

  • Staff Reporter
10 min read
ASHLEY KRIEL

Quest for truth in doccie on MK cadre

Ashley Kriel’s story is re-told by Nadine Cloete in Action Kommandant, her film that’s screening at the 2016 Encounters documentary film festival.

  • Sarah Koopman
4 min read
ANC supporters protested against the truth commission granting amnesty to Jeff Benzien
ANC

Murder of ANC guerrilla Kriel haunts sisters 27 years later

Ashley Kriel’s sisters appreciate what freedom has delivered, but feel there should be more

  • Glynnis Underhill
12 min read