Thompson Dhlamini was Chief Vuna Miya’s erstwhile chief induna (headman). Banished along with Chief Miya, the two men were handcuffed together and “taken from Bergville, [Natal, now KwaZulu-Natal], where they had remained in the police cells for three days before they were put on a train for the Transvaal.”
Dhlamini was banished on 18 August 1954 to Frenchdale Trust Farm, near Mafeking, [Northern Cape, now North West Province]. Oneof his four partners joined him in Frenchdale.
Member of the Pan African Congress and Deputy Editor of the Sowetan newspaper. Was shot dead in his car by two gunmen.
Lele Mabele a member of the Pan Africanist Congress and a trade unionist, was shot at home.
Bheki Mlangeni was born on 28 December 1958 at Jabulani, Soweto Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), and he was the fourth child of five children.
Mlangeni studied law at the University of Witwatersrand. He was detained for political activities in 1985 at Sun City (Diepkloof Prison, Johannesburg).
Shot dead
Shot dead as he was leaving his home.
A National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa shop steward. Mafiyeka was gunned down by one of a group of four men who approached him as he walked to work.
Prince Mafoko was an official of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL). He was shot and killed by police.
Mhlupeki Hlongwane and Mxoshwa Mdhluli were banished from Ngoba Location, Bergville District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal]on 11 April 1957. Their banishment orders were a consequence of developments related to the killing of five police officers during a dagga raid in February 1956; 22 of those responsible were apprehended and sentenced to death.
According to Mdhluli, on 12 April 1957 the police took Mhlupeki Hlongwane, the son of Mdhluli’s chief, and himself to the Native Commissioner’s office at Bergville.
Mdhluli recounted:
Tom Lebekoe was one of the six persons, alongside Jeremiah Mabe, accused of various offences arising from conflict in Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, Transvaal (now North West Province).
An order dated 9 September 1949 banished Lebekoe, this order was revoked on 14 May 1952.