His father’s son

Lukhanyo Calata — pictured here with his wife, Abigail — was only three when his father, Fort, was murdered by agents of the apartheid state in 1985, with three other activists. They became known as the Cradock Four. Thirty-one years later Lukhanyo, a journalist, became one of the SABC 8 when he defied Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s reign of censorship by writing an open letter that declared: “My father didn’t die for this.” In this edited extract from his book, co-written with his wife, Lukhanyo recounts a bizarre turn in the fight against the state broadcaster