MABALANE, Frieda

Age 15

Description
An Huhudi Youth Organisation member and UDF supporter who was stabbed and injured by a named UDF supporter in Huhudi, Vryburg, Cape, on 27 November 1985, after being accused of being an informer. Later that day she was abducted from her home and forced to drink petrol before being hung from a tree and severely burnt by the same perpetrator and other members of the youth organisation. She died soon afterwards in hospital.

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report Glossary

Episode 10 | Watch the Episode

... the TRC occurred in the Huhudi township near Vryburg in the former 'independent' homeland of Bophuthatswana. Segments include the killing of Frieda Mabalane by comrades, incidents of Huhudi youth and civic organisation members tortured by police, an interview with a group of former vigilantes, ...

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Transcript of episode 10, section 3, starting at: 06:43

Frieda Mabalane was 15 years old when she was stabbed and burnt to death in 1985. Mabalane was a Standard five pupil in Vryburg, and by all accounts a dedicated UDF and youth activist in Huhudi until she was named an impimpi, informer, and her comrades dealt with her. Frieda’s grandmother, ...

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Episode 10, Section 3 | Watch the Video

Human rights violations, Bophuthatswana: The murder of Frieda Mabalane by comrades, the Bop coup, the fall of Mangope and the AWB debacle.

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