Vernon Nkadimeng
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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
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
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- ↑ List of ANC Members who Died in Exile Template:Webarchive ANC.org
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- ↑ Family exhumes apartheid victims body BOPA Daily News Archive, 16 January 2006
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- 1958 births
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- People from Alexandra, Gauteng
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- Deaths by car bomb
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- 1980s murders in Botswana
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- 1984 murders in Africa
- African politicians assassinated in the 1980s
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- Deaths by explosive device