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MADLALA, Sangozile Gennet

Age 50

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Was stoned and stabbed to death, along with her eighteen year old granddaughter, when IFP-supporting hostel-dwellers attacked ANC supporters in Bruntville, near Mooi River, Natal, on 3 December 1991. After killing Ms Madlala, the attackers tried to burn her body. See Bruntville attacks.

... tensions boiled over into a full scale attack the next day when hostel dwellers swept down into the township in the early hours of the morning. Ria Madlala’s story is that of so many Bruntville residents who survived that terrible day. As the IFP men came into her house, she jumped out of the ...
 
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