Chronicle of a massacre foretold

Oyama Mabandla was a teenage revolutionary when he survived the December 1982 SADF raid on Maseru by a quirk of fate. He wonders if the ANC, as it prepares for its conference 40 years later, has learnt one of the most important lessons of the raid: united it stands, divided it falls

09 October 2022 - 00:00
By Oyama Mabandla

Oyama Mabandla was a teenage revolutionary when he survived the December 1982 SADF raid on Maseru by a quirk of fate. He wonders if the ANC, as it prepares for its conference 40 years later, has learnt one of the most important lessons of the raid: united it stands, divided it falls

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