CELE, Dan

This episode starts with exhumations of MK soldiers Phila Ndwandwe, Raymond Mkhwanazi and Mbovani Mzimela aka Dion Cele on Elandskop farm near Pietermaritzburg and Phumezo Nxiweni on a farm near Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal. Murder sites were pointed out by former Natal Security Branch members applying ...

... And too often in the past they died too young. In Newcastle in the early 1980s Hlogonathi Sibankulu, known to all as Prof was such a leader. Mandla Cele was his friend and colleague. // I have to say that we worked with him from 1982 and in 1983 we formed a new organisation. It was called ...

Adolphus Cele is also one of the victims who were shot on the day of the Ngquza hill massacre. // The chiefs were called in Umtata and there were two things which were decided there. One of them was about the land and the other one about the money and they were made to choose between the two: money ...

‘Intelezi’ is a Zulu word which defines a substance smeared by warriors on their bodies before they go into battle. It has been a custom of the African people long before King Shaka’s time. It can only be given out by inyangas [herbalists] and is associated with power. Some people call it ...

... a month after Phile. His was one of the bodies found this week and a local newspaper investigation claims that the third body belonged to Dion Cele, abducted out of Swaziland by a serving South African policeman Captain Jerry Brookes just three months before they took Phila. ‘The skeleton ...

‘Mndeni ka Bheki Tekere Mkwanazi, mndeni ka Mbovane Dion Cele Mzimela, mndeni ka Mbuso Tshabalala, mndeni ka Charles Ndaba, sinithwesa izimphahla zegwalagwala.’ To the families our message is, we share your sorrow, we share your rage and we share your pride. Know that South Africans for ...