Sue Williamson’s art of resistance

“IT’S A PLEASURE to meet you” is not a phrase you might expect to hear from the man who assassinated your father. Eugene de Kock, a former South African police colonel and apartheid’s chief assassin, had ambushed and shot Candice Mama’s father, a member of the Pan Africanist Congress, when she was just a baby. In 2014, exploring the possibilities of forgiveness, she visited him in prison and was surprised by the warmth of his greeting. “It’s a pleasure to meet you” is also the title of an affecting video of 2016 by Sue Williamson. In it, Ms Mama probes apartheid’s painful legacy with Siyah Ndawela Mgoduka, a young man whose father was also murdered by the police.