South Africa Exhumes 83 Political Prisoners Hanged During Apartheid

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South Africa Exhumes 83 Political Prisoners Hanged During Apartheid

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The South African Justice Minister, Michael Masutha has confirmed that the exhumation of 83 political prisoners hanged at Pretoria Central Prison during the apartheid era had started in the country’s capital on Wednesday. The minister said the remains would be identified and returned to their families. Report says some 130 political prisoners were hanged on the gallows of the correctional centre between 1960 and 1990. The remains of 47 of them mainly members of the Pan Africanist Congress and United Democratic Front anti-apartheid organisations had been exhumed, while 83 of them remain buried in unmarked graves. It said that the last execution carried out at the prison was of Solomon Ngobeni in November 1989, who was convicted of robbing a taxi driver. The last woman executed was Sandra Smith, also convicted of murder in June of the same year. In February 1990, President Frederik Willem de Klerk declared a moratorium on executions in the country, while the death penalty was abolished in 1995. 

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