Forty years after Solomon Mahlangu was hanged, his family continues to remember his legacy

Saturday marks 40 years since Solomon Mahlangu was hanged - and every year his family commemorates his death.

The preparations start a week before. Welcomed to his home in Mamelodi West, where his brother Lucas Mahlangu still lives, we find a potjie on the fire with tlhothla, the traditional porridge used to make traditional beer.

Solomon left South Africa to be trained as an Umkhonto weSizwe soldier in Mozambique and Angola. He spent six months in a refugee camp near Xai-Xai in Mozambique and then received military training at an ANC camp in Angola.Two days later Mahlangu and his companions, Mondy Johannes Motloung and George"Lucky" Mahlangu, were confronted by police in Goch Street, Johannesburg."Lucky" Mahlangu managed to escape. In the ensuing gun battle two civilians were killed and two wounded.

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