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Article: Briefly
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 16, 2009
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Frans 'Ting-Ting' Masango
Frans "Ting-Ting" Masango, who died on 21 September aged 51, was
a former guerrilla activist once sentenced to death for treason
against the apartheid government in South Africa.
Masango, who was born in 1958 in Mamelodi, a township outside
Pretoria, was part of an ANC underground military unit in the mid-
1980s that carried out attacks against the apartheid regime,
including assaults on policemen and planting bombs. He was captured
in 1986 along with Jabu Masina, Neo Potsane and Joseph Makhura and
faced charges including murder, treason and terrorism. The four were
held in solitary confinement for months before their trial in
Delmas, east of Johannesburg.
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