MTSHALI, Nde

... members applying for amnesty. Natal Security Branch members also applied for amnesty for the killing of Sibusiso Ndlovu, Mazwi Vilakazi and Vusi Mtshali - three student activists who were executed and blown to pieces at the Phoenix Railway Station on 18 November 1988. The latest confessions ...

Execution of Vusi Mtshali, Busi Ndhlovu and Mazwe Vilikazi by Natal Security Police, 1988

... The dead youth were all from KwaMashu township. Sibusiso Ndlovu, a standard ten correspondence student; Mazwi Vilakazi, a matric pupil; and Vusi Mtshali, a first year law student at the University of Durban-Westville. The first notification of the bomb blast came just before 3 am from … … ...

They’re not sure as to the bodies. They show us the clothes and they asked me to choose which is which and then I show them Vusi’s clothes and Mazwi’s clothes and Sibusiso’s clothes. And then they said, alright we are not going to show you the bodies, because the bodies are like mincemeat ...

That’s when I discovered that my husband had died because my father in law came also and sat right next to me. He said to me. We’ve been defeated by life. They saw his shoe and they could not recognize him because he was burnt. The only thing that they could recognize was his shoes. When they ...

Mazwi Vilakazi lived with the Mtshali family. Mazwi’s remains were so intermingled with the tissues of the other two that they could not be separated. His head was never found. Sibusiso Ndlovu was better off. He had also disintegrated, but both his legs remained. One was 64 meters away from the ...

... we Sizwe unit known as ‘The Swimmers’ here at Phoenix Railway Station. The dead were all KwaMashu student activists. Their names were Vusi Mtshali, Sibusiso Ndlovu and Mazwi Vilakazi. But the MK unit had another member. This is a story of Naye Ngema, the one who got away. // Definitely I ...

... to be responsible for a recent spate of blasts in the Durban area. The SABC said no damage was caused. The truth is that nothing was left of Vusi Mtshali except for one leg still wearing a size nine Adidas takkie. It was found 56 meters from the explosion. No head was ever ...

We stay in KwaZulu-Natal for our next report and the names Andy Taylor and Hentie Botha come up again. In 1988 police said three terrorists had accidentally blown themselves up at the Phoenix Railway Station. No names were given. The police simply said they were terrorists. Tonight we can tell you ...