OPINION: MK soldiers who perished in Mpumalanga combat remembered
By Harold Lekhuleni
Harold Lekhuleni, senior member of the Oral History Association of South Africa and History Subject Advisor of Bohlabela District, Mpumalanga Department of Education
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the skirmish that took place between one of the gallant Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) cadre, Frank Thabane and the apartheid South African Police (SAP). It was on 19 March 1985 at around 12h00 when a police contingent flooded the house of Thabo Chiloane at Bafaladi Village in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, where Thabane was harboured.
When the apartheid police arrived in the house, they instructed all the occupants to come out and they complied except Thabane who clearly understood that the mission of the police was to capture ...