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Article: Frans Masango, at 51; fought apartheid in South Africa
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2009
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JOHANNESBURG - Frans "Ting-Ting" Masango, a former guerrilla
activist once sentenced to death for treason against the apartheid
government, has died, South Africa's ruling African National
Congress party said yesterday. He was 51.
Mr. Masango died in Pretoria Friday after battling diabetes, the
party said.
"We dip our revolutionary banner in honor of this distinguished
cadre and a selfless combatant who sacrificed immensely to the
democratic order we live in today," the ANC said.
Mr. Masango was part of an ANC underground military unit that
operated inside South Africa in the mid-1980s and carried out
attacks against the apartheid regime, including assaults on
policemen and planting bombs.
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