MNGUNI, Meshack

Age 52

Description
Was shot dead by unidentified attackers at Ikhwezi station, Soweto, Johannesburg, on 4 November 1992. According to the SAP, the attackers exited the train and walked to the nearby taxi rank where they opened fire, killing three people and injuring three others. Mr Mnguni was a hawker at the taxi rank and was killed when trying to flee from the attackers. Train violence was a common occurrence in the early 1990s in an attempt to destabilise the negotiation process.