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SWARTBOOI, Melvin Khayalethu Khaya

Age 18

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A COSAS member who was shot dead on 2 May 1985 by members of the SAP concealed under cardboard boxes loaded on a municipal truck in KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage, Cape. Witnesses saw police place stones in the hands of the deceased after the killing. See Trojan Horse incident, Uitenhage

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report Glossary
Volume 5, Chapter 2
... MAHASA, Matsidiso Jane MAHAU, Lereng Martin MAHAVLE, Mayeza Peter MAHAYE, Khohlwangifile MAHAYE, Ntolwana Busisiwe MAHIJANA, Lundi Shadrack MAHITI, Khayalethu Patrick MAHLABA, Albertina Thokozile MAHLABA, Bellina Dolly MAHLABA, Bongani Ernest MAHLABA, Enoch Sipho MAHLABA, Likhohlwa Samuel ...
/reports/volume5/chapter2/subsection10.htm
Volume 3, Chapter 2
... beings”. 211 A few weeks later a similar incident took place in KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage, close to Despatch. Seventeen-year-old COSAS activist Khayalethu Melvin Swartbooi [EC0175/96UIT] was killed. Swartbooi’s mother, Ms Meyi Mabel Swartbooi, told the Commission: On 2 May 1985, a Hippo ...
/reports/volume3/chapter2/subsection19.htm
  
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