ABSTRACT
The concluding chapter to the book focuses on photographs made by the South African police to support their claims that the detainees who died while in police custody were not tortured and killed, but that they committed suicide. The chapter argues for a counter-forensic reading of these images to refute the intentions of those who gave the orders to “eliminate” so-called “terrorists” and of those who carried out these deeds, in order to hold them to account. To do so is to refuse to allow the violence and erasure of apartheid to lay claim to the future.
