AZAPO leaders arrested in Soweto
Date: 4 May, 1978
Azanian People's Organisation's two principal leaders, Ishmael Mkhabela and Lybon Mabasa are arrested in Soweto. They were detained under the General Law Amendment Act of 1963. Ishmael Mkhabela was chairman of AZAPO in Soweto. He was also a member of the Soweto Action Committee organised to deal with increasing detentions of liberation leaders. Currently, L Mabasa is leader of the Socialist Party of Azania (SOPA), a breakaway faction from AZAPO.
Click here to read more about detention and AZAPO activism leading to Black Wednesday, and here to read about breakaway factions from the AZAPO. Click Lybon Mabasa to read his testimony to the Open World Conference of Workers.
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