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MAKHANYA, Ida

Age 41

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An Inkatha supporter who was stabbed to death at Richmond Farm, near KwaMashu, Durban, in February 1989, when political violence broke out between IFP-supporting Richmond Farm residents and UDF-supporting residents of K Section, KwaMashu. The violence claimed many lives, destroyed homes and forced residents to flee from the area.

Cornish Makhanya was arrested with 14 others in Lichtenburg in June, 1986. He was 18 at the time, and involved in student politics. He was taken to the police station. // They took this machine connected this two cords, they put them on my head, over my hair. They poured water on me, and put on ...
The legislation did play a very vital role in hindering the free flow of information during those days, but that is an excuse that is used by people who ran the media at the time ... as an excuse for not having gone further in exposing the atrocities and the injustices that were happening in the ...
 
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