MAHLANGU, Jacob

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A local tribal authority chairperson who had his house set alight and was burnt to death by `comrades` in KwaNdebele, KwaNdebele, on 28 May 1986 during conflict over the incorporation of the village into KwaNdebele. The attack took place soon after about twenty thousand people gathered at the Ndzundza Royal Kraal for a report back from the KwaNdebele cabinet on earlier demands to abandon independence and disband the Imbokodo. See Imbokodo.