Peter Mokaba was a member of the South African parliament, deputy minister in the government of Nelson Mandela

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 and president of the South African governing party's youth wing, the ANC Youth League. The Polokwane

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 stadium for the 2010 FIFA World Cup

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 was named after him.

Mokaba was active in the struggle against Apartheid but became known in the 1990s for his use of the slogan "Kill the boer, kill the farmer", a call to murder white people, in particular Afrikaners. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=vn20100310041938251C304265 He was a friend of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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, the former wife of Nelson Mandela. At the time of his death, he had been appointed to head the ANC electoral campaign in 2004 and his funeral was attended by former presidents Thabo Mbeki

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 and Nelson Mandela

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 as well as current South African president Jacob Zuma

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. Crowds are reported to have chanted "Kill the boer, kill the farmer!" as his coffin entered the stadium.

According to academic Jacob Dlamini, writing in Business Day newspaper, Mokaba was a "a confessed apartheid agent and a man as corrupt as they came."http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=94634

Sources

Hambe Kahle Peter Mokaba, Mail& Guardian, 2002

MNR. PETER MOKABA, ANC-LP, destyds leier, Die Burger, 2002 (in Afrikaans)

Peter Mokaba biography on the website of the ANC

Auto-biography of Mokaba on the ANC website

Aids dissident Peter Mokaba dies

Obituary of Peter Mokaba in The Independent