VILAKAZI, (first name not given)

Natal Security Branch 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 ...

Not two but three young men died here in the early hours of November 18 1988. Their identities have never been revealed outside of court documents. For the first time Special Report tells who they were and what really happened that night. The dead youth were all from KwaMashu township. Sibusiso ...

Alone you are very, very weak against the elements of nature, that’s why we have different types of clothing; and even besides that we know that emotionally, spiritually we are very, very weak. We have all sorts of fears and we know how limited our physical capacities are, our mental capacities ...

... will be performed to get that desire to kill – because it was assumed that you must have been possessed by something that is inhuman, that is not really needed, wanted in normal life – so there will be a ritual to get that out of you. ...

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 ...

... 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 was going to be one of those people, definitely. Because it means ...

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 ...