Overview
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    Inventory Number
    3226DC7
    Site Name
    Washington Mpumelelo Bongco Memorial
    Descriptions
    Site History

    Washington Bongco was a senior member of MK in the Eastern Cape who was sentenced to death for a petrol bomb attack on informer. He was executed in Pretoria on 10 December 1964. The memorial tombstone at his birthplace, Fort Beaufort, was constructed and unveiled in August 1998 after the exhumation and reburial of his mortal remains.

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    joshua.slingers
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 21:26
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      Location
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      -32.778889, 26.635278
      Eastern Cape
      • Amathole
      • Raymond Mhlaba
      Site Address

      South Africa

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