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Special Report Transcript Episode 21, Section 4, Time 18:47

Victoria and Griffiths Mxenge were both lawyers based in Durban, but home for them was the Eastern Cape. During their short lives they worked with and for impoverished communities like Duncan Village. Griffiths was eliminated in 1981by security policemen Dirk Coetzee and Joe Mamasela. Victoria was assassinated four years after her husband. While his killers are now facing trial, her murder is still a mystery. On the day of her funeral enraged mourners necklaced a Ciskeian soldier who was caught up in the procession to the cemetery.

Notes: Victoria Mxenge’s funeral; Burnt body

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TRC Victims Glossary
A corporal in the Ciskei Defence Force (CDF) who died after being stoned and burnt by a crowd of UDF and ANC supporters at the funeral of UDF leader, Victoria Mxenge, near King William ’s Town, Cape, on 11 August 1985.
 
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