LEST WE FORGET OUR TORRID HISTORY
Apr 11, 2021
4 minutes
JESSIE DUARTE
ON APRIL 6, 1979, Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu was taken from his cell to a holding cell that held six other men in the death row section of Pretoria Central Prison.
A day before, he had seen his mother Mme Martha Mahlangu and his lawyer Dr Priscilla Jana, after he had lost his appeal some weeks earlier, and had told his mother: “Tell my people that I love them and they must continue to fight, my blood will nourish the tree that will bear the fruits of freedom, A luta Continua.”
From the holding cell he was made to stand next to six other men, his
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