NGALO, Nkosinam

Age 30

Description
A Poqo member who was executed in Pretoria Central prison, Pretoria, on 9 May 1963 for killing a headman in Cofimvaba. Poqo attacked re p resentatives of traditional authority in the homelands because chiefs were seen as collaborating with the a p a rtheid state. During October 1962 an attempt was made on Chief Kaiser Matanzima’s life and residents of Jixini Location who had been arrested in Cape Town or Mqanduli, were transferred to East London, to stand trial for Poqo activities during the 1960s.