Nomonde Calata, widow of assassinated anti-apartheid activist Fort Calata, will today reflect on her appearance at South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission 22 years ago, in conversation with former TRC commissioner, Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.

Calata was among the first witnesses to appear at the TRC, in its first week of public hearings in April 1996. Her wail of anguish as she described the police killing of her husband and three colleagues – referred to in death as the Cradock Four – reduced the East London City Hall to a flood of tears and powerfully symbolised the traumatic journey on which the country was embarking to examine its past.