Tourist attraction
Amy Biehl Memorial
Roadside marker to an American student killed here in nineteen ninety-three, whose family forgave her killers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Amy Biehl Memorial tells the story of Amy Biehl, a 26-year-old American student who was driving three Black colleagues home to Gugulethu on 25 August 1993 while working on voter education ahead of South Africa's first democratic election, when a crowd surrounded her car. It follows her parents, Linda and Peter, to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1998, where they took a stance on the men convicted of her killing that almost nobody expected. Four young men were sentenced for the killing before that hearing ever took place.
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