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Somehow, Linda Biehl was able to forgive her daughter’s killers and start a foundation that helps community projects in the townships where she worked. For that, she received one of South Africa’s highest honors: she was named to the Order of Companions of O R Tambo by President Thabo Mbeki at a ceremony today in Pretoria.
“I have come to believe passionately in restorative justice … It’s what South Africans call ‘ubuntu’: to choose to forgive rather than demand retribution, a belief that my humanity is inextricably caught up in yours,” Ms Biehl told BuaNews. [AllAfrica]
Amy Biehl’s death shocked South Africa and the world as it happened in 1993, just a year before the country’s all-race election. According to Reuters, Biehl had just dropped off three black friends in Gugulethu, when she was attacked by a crowd returning from a Pan African Congress rally.
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