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Griffiths Mxenge is buried

Griffiths Mxenge is buried

Date
2 Dec 1981
Updated
30 Sep 2019
Griffiths Mxenge is buried

Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist murdered on 19 November, was buried at his home village of Rayi, near King William's Town. More than 15 000 people attended the funeral. He was the husband of Victoria Mxenge who, in December 1985, while preparing to defend the United Democratic Front and the Natal Indian Congress in a treason trial at the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court, was also brutally murdered in her home by apartheid agents.

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  1. 01Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2, Pretoria: Vista.
  2. 02Everything2,"Victoria Mxenge", From: Everything2,[Online], Available at: everything2.com,[Accesssed on : 22 November 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Griffiths Mxenge is buried. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012465

South African History Online (2011) 'Griffiths Mxenge is buried', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012465 (Accessed: 9 August 2026).

South African History Online, Griffiths Mxenge is buried [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012465, (accessed 9 August 2026).

"Griffiths Mxenge is buried." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012465. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Griffiths Mxenge is buried." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012465.

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