OSS, Andrew

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Was stabbed and burnt to death by members of the ‘Gaddaffi’ faction of the ANC-aligned Khutsong Youth Congress (KYC) in Khutsong, Carletonville, Transvaal , in June 1990 while selling ANC T-shirts at the local taxi rank. Violence between two rival factions of the KYC, the ‘Zim-zims’ and the ‘Gaddaffis’, resulted in at least 17 deaths between 1989 and 1991 before a peace pact took effect in May 1991.