The Apartheid Killer: Exposing the ghosts of South Africa’s past - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

One of worst mass killers in South Africa’s history is free from prison - and he is ready to speak. Thirty years since his atrocities, his victims are still fighting for closure and justice.

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In the late 1980s, private security guard Louis van Schoor fatally shot dozens people in the South African city of East London. All of his victims were black. The youngest was just 12 years old.

It is a bloodbath that places Van Schoor among the most prolific killers in history. He was caught and arrested in 1991. But with many of his shootings signed off by local police as ‘justifiable homicides,’ he would receive a shockingly light sentence - serving only 12 years in jail. Decades have past, but the relatives of his victims have never found closure.

How many people did Van Schoor really kill? And who else was involved?

It's been thirty years since the white supremacist apartheid regime crumbled. The unresolved trauma of this time has cast a long shadow across a nation.

In piecing together the story of Van Schoor, this #BBCAfricaEye investigation exposes the disturbed past and racial injustices of South Africa itself.

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🚨UPDATE 26/07/24: South African mass killer Louis van Schoor dies of natural causes as victims still demand justice: https://bbc.in/3M0SzGt

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Credits:

Head of Longform and Investigations - Liz Gibbons
Editor, Africa Eye - Tom Watson
Directed and Filmed by - Charlie Northcott
Co-Directed and Produced by - Isa-Lee Jacobson
Executive Producer - Monica Garnsey
Film Editor - Nick Cortés
Creative Consultant - Peter Murimi
Production Manager - Simon Frost
Production Coordinator - Sarah Clarke
Post Production: Coda Post Production
Social Media Producer - Anusha Kumar
Re-versioning Producer - Anna Payton
Researchers - Zuko Blauw, Vuyani Simani, Nokwezi Ganya, Sipho Somyaii
Additional Filming - Richard Kruger
Composer - Anna Papadimitriou
Additional Music - Weronika Grazyna Kijewska, Singalakha Njova
Translators - Marlene Mvumbi, Lundi Njemla, Melissa-Lee Rootman
Archive - Associated Press, Eastern Cape Archives, Records Department, Eastern Cape High Court, Reuters, Getty Images, Pond 5, SABC News Archives

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