South African Anti-Apartheid Icon, Andrew Mlangeni, Dies At 95

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Andrew Mlangeni, the last surviving South African anti-apartheid activist convicted with Nelson Mandela in the infamous 1963-64 Rivonia Trial, has died at 95.
Andrew Mlangeni
, the last surviving South African anti-apartheid activist convicted with Nelson Mandela in the infamous 1963-64 Rivonia Trial, has died at 95.

This was the trial considered to have brought Mandela to global attention.

Mlangeni died after being admitted to a military hospital in the capital Pretoria on Tuesday, July 21, with an abdominal complaint.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said his death “signifies the end of a generational history and places our future squarely in our hands.”

Announcing his death, President Ramaphosa tweeted;

Mlangeni spent 27 years in prison on Cape Town’s Robben Island before his release in 1989 including late Mandela, Dennis Goldberg, Walter Sisulu and other activists who were sentenced for planning to overthrow the apartheid government.

The Island is famous for being a maximum security prison for political prisoners of South Africa‘s apartheid regime.

After his release, Mlangeni served as a lawmaker in South Africa’s first democratic parliament from 1994.

May his soul Rest In Peace.

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