Vernon Nkadimeng was a member of the African National Congress

African National Congress

The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...

 who was killed while in exile in Botswana by the apartheid secret police.

Life

He fled South Africa following the 1976 Soweto uprising at the age of 18. He entered the Umkhonto We Sizwe

Umkhonto we Sizwe

Umkhonto we Sizwe , translated "Spear of the Nation," was the armed wing of the African National Congress which fought against the South African apartheid government. MK launched its first guerrilla attacks against government installations on 16 December 1961...

 (MK) in Angola

Angola

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, the armed wing of the ANC and soon rose up through the military structures of the MK. He traveled to Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

with the MK, where he received specialist military training. On 21 May 1985, Nkadimeng was killed by a car bomb placed by the apartheid police.