Word: mosololi
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...executed were common murderers. The others-Thello S. Mogoerane, 23; Jerry Mosololi, 25; and Marcus Motaung, 27-were guerrillas of the outlawed African National Congress (ANC), the black resistance movement dedicated to toppling South Africa's white supremacist government. Despite ANC claims that the trio deserved to be treated as prisoners of war for their part in attacks that killed four policemen in 1979 and 1981, the South African courts handed down criminal convictions. In the international outcry that followed the convictions, the European Community, the United Nations Security Council, more than 50 U.S. Congressmen and Senators, and hundreds...
...June 1976 over a government regulation requiring the use of the Afrikaans language in the schools. Over a period of 16 months, 700 people died. Amid the heightened racial tensions accompanying that anniversary, many South African blacks will be mindful of the message sent by the mother of Jerry Mosololi on the eve of his death: "Go well, my son. You must know the struggle will not end even after your death...
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