LANGA, Benjamin

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An ANC activist who was shot dead by MK operatives at his home in Pietermaritzburg on 20 May 1984. The instruction for the killing had come from a senior operative in MK’s Swaziland structures who believed Mr Langa to be a police informer. This turned out to be misinformation possibly planted by a state agent. One MK operative was granted amnesty (AC/2000/157).

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report Glossary

Transcript of episode 80, section 5, starting at: 31:05

... And my bosses there were Doctors Ivor Lang and Benjamin Tucker of Steve Biko infamy. Port Elizabeth, 1985 was a nightmare. It was the year of the Langa massacre, of the death of the Cradock Four, of the disappearance of the Pebco three, of the declaration of the State of Emergency. I used to go ...

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