MK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed

Date: 9 Jun 1983
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

MK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed

On 9 June 1983, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung were executed for their part in a hit on Wonderboom police station. The ANC declared the execution a crime against humanity and defended the attack on the police station as an act of liberation. It called for the MK operatives to be treated as prisoners of war under the protection of the Geneva Convention. A few weeks before the event at Wonderboom police station, a car bomb exploded outside the South African Air Force Headquarters and the South African Defence Force (SADF) Military Intelligence headquarters in Pretoria, leaving scores of people dead. The MK guerrillas claimed responsibility for that blast.

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01 SAHO ‘UMkhonto weSizwe [online] Available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 12 May 2011]
02African National Congress UMkhonto weSizwe Timeline [online Available at www.anc.org.za [Accessed: 12 May 2011]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, June 2). MK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0065174

South African History Online (2011) 'MK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed', South African History Online, 2 June. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0065174 (Accessed: 29 July 2026).

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"MK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed." South African History Online, 2 June 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0065174. Accessed 29 July 2026.

South African History Online. "MK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed." South African History Online. June 2, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0065174.