The ANC’s Quatro was best described in a terse statement by Zaba Maledza, when he said: “When you get in there, forget about human rights.”This was a statement from a man who had lived in Quatro during one of the worst periods in its history, from 1980 to 1982.
Established in 1979, Quatro was supposed to be the rehabilitation centre of the ANC, where enemy agents who had infiltrated the ANC would be “re-educated” and would be made to love the ANC through the opportunity to experience the humane character of its ideals.
Regrettably, through a process that still cries out for explanation, Quatro became worse than any prison that even the apartheid regime – itself considered a crime against humanity – had ever had.
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