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1991 Spot News: Human Torch:
Soweto, South Africa: It was not yet dawn on Sept. 15, 1990, when Greg Marinovich and Associated Press reporter Tom Cohen stumbled onto a gunfight between supporters of the African National Congress and the predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party.
ANC youths seized Lindsaye Tschabalala, a Zulu man. They stoned him. A man hauled out a massive, shiny Bowie knife and stabbed hard. "My heart was racing," Marinovich said. "I had difficulty taking deep enough breaths. I called out, 'Who is he? What's he done?' A voice from the crowd replied, 'He's an Inkatha spy.'" Marinovich tried to argue. He took photos mechanically. When the Zulu lay still, he looked away. Suddenly, "the man I thought dead was running across the field, his body enveloped in flames." A man swung a machete into his blazing skull as a boy fled "this vision of hell."
Marinovich made it back to his car. He closed his eyes and began to beat the steering wheel with his fists. "I could finally scream." |