Ka Shabangu
South African politician and activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johannes Mandla "Ka" Shabangu (born 1954 or 1955) is a South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist. He joined Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in the aftermath of the 1976 Soweto uprising, and in 1981 he was convicted of high treason and a grenade attack on a black policeman. He spent two years on death row before his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1983; he was released from Robben Island in the early 1990s.
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Born | 1954 or 1955 (age 68–69) |
Citizenship | South Africa |
Political party | African National Congress |
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After the end of apartheid, Shabangu represented the ANC in the National Assembly during the first democratic Parliament and served two terms as provincial treasurer of the party's Mpumalanga branch. In later years, he was a member of the inaugural steering committee of the MK Military Veterans' Council.