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.
eventREF E-0012465Revised
2 December 1981
Griffiths Mxenge is buried
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- 30 Sep 2019
How we know this
- 01Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2, Pretoria: Vista.
- 02Everything2,"Victoria Mxenge", From: Everything2,[Online], Available at: everything2.com,[Accesssed on : 22 November 2013]
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
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