By Akani Nkuna
United Democratic Front (UDF) activists Alex Matshapa Matsepane and Solomon Mankopane were reburied with liberation honours in their ancestral home in Ga-Maupa village, outside Modjadjiskloof, in Limpopo, on Saturday.
The two were executed by the apartheid regime on December 5, 1986, just six months after being sentenced to death, and buried in unmarked pauper graves in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria.
Their remains were exhumed and reburied as part of the Gallows Exhumation Project, led by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, the TRC Unit, and the NPA’s Missing Persons Task Team.
Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi said the apartheid regime believed that burying freedom fighters in obscurity would erase their legacy from public memory.
“We are, therefore, gathered here today to restore the dignity of these patriots who were indeed the midwives of the democracy that we are enjoying today,” said Kubayi.
“Alex and Solomon were sentenced to death
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