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FRANSCH, Anton

Age 20

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An MK operative who was killed in a hand grenade explosion on 17 November 1989 in Athlone, Cape Town. A large group of named police and soldiers surrounded the house and engaged in an exchange of fire with Mr Fransch throughout the night. It could not be determined whether his death was the result of a final act of suicide or from a police grenade.

... Other segments include the killing of political suspects. Family members of SWAPO leader Anton Lubowski, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) soldier Anton Fransch and the Gugulethu Seven give testimony. We also hear testimonies from victims of APLA?s attack on the St James Church. A report on the ...
... deals with the Bonteheuwel Military Wing, an anti-apartheid self defence unit from Bonteheuwel on the Cape Flats, the deaths of MK soldiers Anton Fransch and Ashley Kriel and the effects of a militant struggle on young people?s lives today. The last segment focuses on the torture methods used ...
... jou vark, vandag is jou laaste, vandag is jy dood’ [Come out, you pig! Today will be your last; you’re going to die today!]. // MK cadre, Anton Fransch died that day. Terrorist to some but hero to most young people of the Cape Flats. // Basil Snayer lives at 148, Church street, the house ...
Church street in Crawford fell very quiet on the morning of 17 November 1989. For seven hours before nervous residents tried not to think about the battle raging between the 40 strong squad of police and army and their unseen enemy at no 149.
Towards the late eighties a number of the trained MK cadres who graduated from the military wing lost their lives in action. First there was Anton Fransch, who was killed in a seven hour shootout with police. This week, a former MK member confessed to having given Anton Fransch’s hiding place ...
Towards the late eighties a number of the trained MK cadres who graduated from the military wing lost their lives in action. First there was Anton Fransch, who was killed in a seven hour shootout with police. This week, a former MK member confessed to having given Anton Fransch’s hiding place ...
 
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