John Clarke Interview

“What a wonderful way to end my year with this interview”

- John GI Clarke

This interview with John delved in depth into my new book with his synopsis as follows

link: https://youtu.be/FmYp2J_xTrU

Candice Nompumelelo Mama's "Heroes Journey" started early.

She was barely four years old when the kindly "white woman" who had frequently visited her family in tthe simple rural farming town of Mafikeng, South Africa, arrived to take her back home to the big city, Johannesburg, a home she never knew she had.

She soon learned that the visitor was in fact her widowed mother, and that she had two brothers too.

Growing up in a transforming Sophiatown, the 'plaaskind' (as her brothers teased her), Candice acclimatised to urban life.

Her adolescent awakening was literally an entry "Into the Heart of Darkness" when her curious nine-year-old self secretly turned the pages of the 1997 book by that title, which her mother had kept hidden away. Written by acclaimed investigative journalist Jacques Pauw, it chronicled the "Confessions of Apartheid Assassins" including the man dubbed as "Prime Evil", Eugene de Kock, who as head of the Vlakplaas Death Squad, is said to have been directly responsible for more atrocities than any other individual in defence of white minority rule.

Candice learned that her deceased father Glenack Mama - a PAC activist - was one of his victims. In March 1992 Glenack Mama was on a PAC assignment to transport members to Nelspruit, when de Kock and his hit squad ambushed the vehicle. De Kock personally discharged a full magazine of bullets into Candice's father before dousing the minibus with petrol and setting it alight, leaving baby Candice and her 4 year old brother fatherless.