An Argentinean forensics expert says she used every scientific technique possible while examining the burnt remains of five apartheid activists.

The Missing Person’s Task Team called in international forensics experts to sift through what was believed to be the remains of the PEBCO Three and COSAS Two members.

The political activists all disappeared in the 1980’s.

Their remains were found on a farm in Cradock in the Eastern Cape two years ago.

The Argentine forensic anthropology team’s Claudia Bisso says identifying the remains was difficult, as they did not have any DNA to work with.

“Because we are working with fragmented remains, it’s impossible to give 100 percent identification. The only way to do it is through DNA and you cannot extract DNA when the remains are burnt.”

Bisso says she also examined South American revolutionary Ché Guevara’s bones.

“Members of my team worked on that project together with the Cubans and we found the remains of Ché Guevara. The PEBCO Three and the COSAS Two are burnt remains, are fragmented remains. In the case of Ché Guevara, he was buried in a clandestine grave but it was a full skeleton.”