Nomkhosi Mini was born in 1959, the daughter of Vuyisile Mini, SACTU activist and first ANC member to be executed by the apartheid state.

Nomkhosi was a founding member of Amandla, the Cultural Ensemble of the ANC. She became an MK operative and survived a March 1979 South African Defence Force attack on the Novo Catengue camp in Angola. She was shot dead (along with nine others, three of whom were Lesotho citizens) by members of the notorious Vlakplaas hit squad when they raided two houses in Maseru, Lesotho on 19 December 1985. Seven members of the Security branch, including its then deputy chief were refused amnesty for this assassination.

References

• Truth & Reconcilaition Commission, (2002). Truth & Reconcilaition Commission of South Africa Report, Vol. 7 , Cape Town: Juta, p.428
• www.sacp.org.za/biographies/vmini.html

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