‘If she had lived her life with bitterness, she would suffer more.’
Letlapa Mphahlele was the commander of a South African liberation army during apartheid. Howard Grace travels with him
The campaign against apartheid in South Africa could not be said to have been nonviolent. Letlapa Mphahlele, while commanding a liberation army, ordered high-profile retaliatory massacres on white civilians. But after a radical transformation he has come to see the whole of humanity as ‘my people’. Last month he came to the UK, invited by Initiatives of Change International, and together we visited fifteen towns and cities with this message of transformation.
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