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Special Report Transcript Episode 26, Section 3, Time 18:02

He was a Catholic priest but also a prominent leader of the United Democratic Front. But for the South African police he was a communist and an ANC supporter and therefore a legitimate target for elimination. Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, today Deputy Minister of Education would say that God was with him, because he lived to hear two former policemen describe their attempts to kill him.

Notes: Max du Preez

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Was targeted for killing by members of the Northern Transvaal Security Branch. Mkhatshwa was a clergyman, an official in the Southern African Catholic Bishops` Conference and patron of the UDF. An unsuccessful attempt on his life was made at the Durban airport during 1987. Two of the conspirators ...
 
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