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MAKOLANE, Abraham 'Canon'

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A COSAS member who was recruited for military training by a Security Branch agent purporting to be an MK operative, and was killed in the Nietverdiend ambush near the Botswana border on 26 June 1986. Eight operatives from SADF Special Forces, Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches were granted amnesty for the operation (AC/1999/0190, AC/1999/0192,AC/1999/0194, AC/1999/0031, AC/1999/0188, AC/1999/0030 and AC/1999/0197). See Nietverdiend ambush.

For Mabel Makolane, mother of Abraham Makolane none of the young men deserved their deaths and for her and the other parents she spoke for neither do these men deserve forgiveness or amnesty. // I don’t have reconciliation. As they’ve taken them from my place to the place where they’ve killed ...
 
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