Mandela / holding

How they kept someone's hand in a jar back at police headquarters to remind uncooperative detainees of their likely fate. And even journalists wept that day in 1996 as the widow of one of those Cradock men begged the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help her recover all that was left of her late husband: that missing hand, the one in the jar.

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So many times, ordinary people would tell me, sometimes using Mandela's affectionate clan name: Madiba says we must forgive, so I must try.