The story after 1980 is that of Bopela and Luthuli’s daily struggle to survive, in Bopela’s case , his need to find a job and secure and education in Zimbabwe and the Netherlands without the assistance of the ANC who by then saw him as a troublemaker. Luthuli was ordered to mole into Inkatha, which he did, eventually becoming the head of the IFP’s Caprivi-trained hit squad. Bopela returned to South Africa in 1990 and in 1992 secured a job with Escom, with the help of Don Mkhwanazi, now known as a friend of Jacob Zuma. Luthuli soon sought out Bopela to open a channel to Zuma to end the carnage between the and IFP which Luthuli discovered was being carefully controlled by Military Intelligence to ensure that the violence continued but in a way that ensured one side would not defeat the other. The link was established and the rest if history.
The food for thought out of this episode is that Zuma today wears the halo for having made the peace. But is it his to claim?
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‘We feel bad that as soldiers the people we fought for are still poor, jobless and living in shacks’, says Bopela. ‘Our struggles werenot about those in power, but the poor. But all we see today is corruption, nepotism, non delivery and patronage.’
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