The uMkhonto weSizwe operative disappeared from an underground parking lot at Carlton Centre in downtown Johannesburg in September 1983.
JOHANNESBURG - Several anti-apartheid activists have been honoured during this year’s national orders’ ceremony among them Nokuthula Simelane.
She had gone there to meet a man she believed was a comrade but was, instead an undercover member of the security police.She has now been awarded the Order of Luthuli, for “incredible bravery”. President Cyril Ramaphosa mentioned her in his address at the presentation of the national orders on Tuesday.
"Several of the recipients of this year’s Order of Luthuli were brutally killed by the apartheid regime. One of them is Ms Nokuthula Simelane, who was abducted and tortured by the apartheid security branch. Her remains were never found.""Like the scars of many other South Africans whose loved ones disappeared during the repressive years of apartheid.
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