SONO, Lolo

We are still not at ease. I’m having nightmares, dreams. Sometimes I hear knocks on the door thinking that it is Lolo. When I am sleeping I can see him flying from the sky, coming home, saying that mom I’m back home. Then I open my arms and take to hug him and say welcome home. I am pleading ...

Numsa Tshabalala says her son Sibuniso disappeared shortly after Lolo Sono. // Then he said, if you say Lolo was taken by Winnie Madikizela’s people then probably I will be taken there as well. And we left for work, when we came back Sibuniso was not at home. When Sibuniso had gone, that is after ...

In 1989 I went to Mrs. Mandela with my husband. We went there to go and plead with her that she must please tell us what happened with Lolo or tell us where he is. Mrs. Mandela refused to speak to me, only spoke to my husband. Again, in the beginning of 1990 we went to Mrs. Mandela to go and plead ...

I’m having nightmares, dreams. Sometimes I hear knocks on the door thinking that it is Lolo. When I’m sleeping I can see him flying from the sky, coming home. Saying that mom, I’m back home. Then I’ll open my arms and try to hug him and say welcome.

When I came into the garage, they were beating Lolo Sono. Mrs Mandela, Jerry Richardson and others. They were whipping Sono. After they beat Sono he was wounded. Then they put him in a car and drove to his house in Meadowlands.

A number of other murders in the tax were blamed on the Mandela United Football Club. Sibuniso, son of Nomsa Tshabalala, disappeared around the same time as Lolo Sono. Jerry Richardson says he took part in Sibuniso’s murder which was ordered by Madikizela-Mandela.

... are serious, especially because it involves the vicious assaults on young boys, and even murder. The parents of Stompie Seipei and Lolo Sono have pleaded with the Truth Commission for more information about the death of their children. We cannot treat these parents and these cases ...

... rumour mongering, kidnapping, vicious assaults and eight brutal murders. The dead people are: Vincent Sefako, Susan Maripa, Stompie Seipei, Lolo Sono, Sibuniso Tshabalala, Finki Msomi, Koekie Zwane Miya, Abubaker Asvat. Every single one of these murdered people had some connection with the ...

... Madikizela-Mandela was given special treatment? But most critically, why did the police never follow up on the cases of the two killed youths Lolo Sono and Sibuniso Tshabalala? Why do the families of these two boys still have nothing to go on except their own ...

Morgan to a certain place where certain pointings out were made? // And he told me that there’s a plantation and there was this mineshaft and Lolo Sono, Sbu Tshabalala, a certain guy from Zola - a guy who disappeared from Zola and Koekie Zwane - a certain young girl who was Zindzi’s friend is ...

‘In the middle of the garage, lying on the concrete floor was Lolo Sono. He had his arms wrapped around his head. He seemed to be trying to protect himself by covering his skull with his hands and forearms. Mrs Mandela was beating him savagely. She had a heavy whip in her right hand, which she ...

... informer they had in the Mandela household. Throughout the two days of the police testimony the families of the disappeared Soweto youngster, Lolo Sono sat in the audience. So too did the mother of Stompie Seipei. This time they were joined by the family of murdered askari, Johannes Themba ...

I’m the one who made the allegation by Mrs. Mandela’s order that Paul raped me. // Cebekhulu also had firsthand knowledge of what happened to Lolo Sono.

told that it was Winnie Madikizela-Mandela herself who killed youth activist Stompie Seipei and who ordered the deaths of Dr Abubaker Asvat and Lolo Sono. In a special edition of our programme on Tuesday we broadcast a BBC documentary outlining these allegations. In the past few weeks we’ve ...

Lolo Sono was taken to Winnie Mandela’s house. Behind these garage doors she passed judgement.

Can you give us a reason why your policemen did not act regarding the abduction of either the four youths from the manse or of the two youths Lolo Sono and Sibuniso Tshabalala timeously? Can you give us a reason? // In that case it is negligence on the side of the public who knew but wouldn’t ...

They accused Lolo Sono of being a police spy. They brought him in the house and he said he was not a police spy. But they said he worked with the police.

... a police informer. The Crisis Committee said Katiza Cebekhulu worked with the police and army. Winnie Mandela accused Stompie Seipei and Lolo Sono of being police spies. How did it happen that Madikizela-Mandela was completely surrounded with police agents, or was she? Was it maybe not ...

... Commission later this month and when Cebekhulu, Richardson and Dlamini testify before the Amnesty Committee. Stompie Seipei’s mother and Lolo Sono And Koekie Zwane’s parents deserve the whole ...