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'-dTI k. f. Call for inqufry into deaths of 'Cradock .4' MATH' =27"M1=22ENLN60 Staff Reporter THE recent disappearance and subsequent deaths of Mr and three other community leaders and activists should be fully invegtigated to determine whether they were murdered by State employees. the vice-chairman of the Civil Rights League, Mr Brian Bishop, said last night, 1 . , The four men, Mr Goniwe, the chairman of the Cradock Residents' Association; Mr , Mr and Mr Sicelo Mhlawuli, all disappeared after leaving for Cradock on June 27. Addressing a United Diemocratic Front memorial rally for the "Cradock Four" at the Athlqng Civic Centre, Mr Bishop said the govern. ment was no stranger to violence. "'We have recently seen top members of the government justify crossing an international border and killing in cold blood people who are claimed - without proof - to support a change in government. "State employees must be ,forgiven if they believe that similar deeds must therefore be morally justifiable this side of the border. "About ten East Cape leaders have died mysteriously. Not one case has been solved. In this recent case, as before, it could only have been telephone tapping that made the murders possible. The police deny tapping telephones. That is What an inquiry must establish. Who does?" Mr Bishop said three I other Eastern Cape leaders had also disappeared after being lured to the airport by a false phone call and that a roadblock had been operating on the road they had been using. I"By coincidence, there was a roadblock when disap pearpd." Mr Bishop referred to a recent Sunday newspaper report quoting a senior police official as saying that he had 'good reason to believe that Azapo sympathizers" could be connected with the deaths of th& fo ri 'I ;discussed the, very issue with Matthew.Qoi-. iwe eight days before his death and he conirmed that there waO no TJDWAzapo tension in ,Crt dock,: Mr Bishop said.-., "Who killed Mathew Goniwe?" asked a banner hanging ftom a pedestrian bridge near the, University of, Cape Town yesterday morning. About three kilometres further on, a banner on another bridge over Eastern Boulevard read " killed Mathew Goniwe". Four life-size dummies hyng next to the second banner.. Thq dummies and one banner, were removed by a traffic officer soon after 7am. The second baner was removed soon afterwards ,by unidentified people. The bqnners referred to the disappearance of Mr Matthew Goniwe, former headmaster of Cradock's Sam ,kali Lower Primary $chool and executive member of the United Democratic Front, and three companions on June 27. Their charred t. . 1. bodies were found days later. v V