Vernon Nkadimeng
Vernon Nkadimeng (25 June 1958 in Alexandra – 21 May 1985 in Gaborone, Botswana) was a member of the African National Congress who was killed while in exile in Botswana by the apartheid secret police.[1][2]
Life
[edit]He fled South Africa following the 1976 Soweto uprising at the age of 18. He entered the Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) in Angola, the armed wing of the ANC and soon rose up through the military structures of the MK. He traveled to Czechoslovakia with the MK, where he received specialist military training.[3] On 21 May 1985, Nkadimeng was killed by a car bomb placed by the apartheid police.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ List of ANC Members who Died in Exile Archived July 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine ANC.org
- ^ "Truth Commission - Special Report - Episode 28". sabctrc.saha.org.za. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
- ^ Family exhumes apartheid victims body BOPA Daily News Archive, 16 January 2006
- ^ "Truth Commission - Special Report - NKADIMENG, Vernon (aka 'Rogers Mevi')". sabctrc.saha.org.za. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
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- Assassinated South African activists
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- Members of the African National Congress
- Deaths by car bomb
- Assassinated South African politicians
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- 1980s murders in Botswana
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- African politicians assassinated in the 1980s
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