We're here busy creating a site-specific installation on the lawns of the castle called

Crying for Justice. Harun Gh Sali is a South African artist and activist and he's digging up the grass just outside

the castle of good hope in Cape Town. You're looking down beyond a moat from the walls of the 17th

century Dutch fort. As you look down you see a symbolic graveyard of 118 graves, one for each of the people killed during

apartheid in police detention. These are people like Steve Bico, Ahmed Timmo,

Imam Harun. Abdullah Harun was an imam in Cape Town who had used his

kutba or pulpit to speak out against South Africa's cruel racist

apartheid laws.

He had condemned as inhumane barbaric and un-Islamic punishing edicts like the Group Areas Act, a law that

grabbed the best spots for white people to live in, scattering black and brown

South Africans into the distant desolate parts of Cape Town.

On September the 27th, 1969, after 123 days in solitary confinement in a police cell, the

imam was dead. He was the seventh person to die in detention in 1969. The

authorities said he had fallen down a flight of stairs.

That lie is something we can't buy anymore.

We can't buy that imam died falling down the stairs. No, he was killed. Imam

Haryngansale, named for the imam uses his art to memorialize the imam's life and death.

The artwork is a public statement and it's a public statement quite literally asking to unberry the past, to dig up the

files, dig up the evidence, bring closure for the families.

I'm Audrey Brown and for the BBC World Service, this is the imam and the artist.

That's imam hareun speaking in a mixture of English and Africans, the languages of the world.

That's imam haroon speaking in a mixture of English and Africans, the languages of his

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