18 August 2019 11 Min Read
Book Extract
How Onkgopotse Tiro met his gruesome, untimely end from the 'Parcel of Death'
In February 1974 Onkgopotse Abram Tiro became the first South African freedom fighter to be assassinated by a parcel bomb. Although he had gone into exile in Botswana, this was not far enough to escape the apartheid security forces. In this extract from 'Parcel of Death', Gaongalelwe Tiro describes his uncle's tragic end …
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