Government's special official funeral for the last Rivonia trialist to pass away, Andrew Mlangeni today

SAfm — Government's "special official" funeral for the last Rivonia trialist to pass away, Andrew Mlangeni, will be held at the University of Johannesburg in Soweto THIS MORNING (Wednesday 29/07/2020) at about nine o'clock. Ninety-five-year-old Mlangeni died at 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria last Wednesday (22/07/2020). He was one of the ANC's first MK members to be trained in China and to meet "Chairman Mao" in 1962. Back home, Mlangeni disguised himself as a priest to recruit others into the armed struggle and became known as "Robot". In mid-1964, Mlangeni and seven other Rivonia trialists - including Denis Goldberg, "Kathy" Kathrada, Raymond Mhlaba and Elias Motsoaledi - were convicted of conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government. For that, Mlangeni was jailed for over 26 years. He only tasted freedom again at the age of 64 in late 1989